How many words start with GAU?

14, from 5 letters up to 5. All of them are on this page.

What is the highest scoring word that start with GAU?

GAUZY at 18 points in Scrabble, and GAUZY at 19 in Words With Friends, because the two games score the tiles differently.

GAUCY, GAUDS, GAUDY, GAUGE, GAUJE, GAULT, GAUMS, GAUMY, GAUNT, GAUPS and 4 more on this page.

14 of them: GAUCY, GAUDS, GAUDY, GAUGE, GAUJE, GAULT, GAUMS, GAUMY, GAUNT, GAUPS and more.

There are 14 of them. The highest scoring is GAUZY at 18 points in Scrabble, and the set averages 9.4.

Most common words first, then the rest A to Z.

The most familiar words on this page and what they mean. Tap any word for its full entry, score and anagrams.

GAUGE verb judge tentatively or form an estimate of (quantities or time)
GAUDS noun form of GAUD: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
GAUDY adjective tastelessly showy
GAUNT adjective very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
GAURS noun form of GAUR: wild ox of mountainous areas of eastern India
GAUSS noun a unit of magnetic flux density equal to 1 maxwell per square centimeter
GAUZE noun (medicine) bleached cotton cloth of plain weave used for bandages and dressings
GAUZY adjective so thin as to transmit light

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

All of them: Word lists.