Hidden inside coarser sit arroces and coarser, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arroces and coarser tie for the highest Scrabble score from coarser at 9 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in coarser: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coarser itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are arroces and coarser, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling coarser turns up 10 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carers, coarse, corers, crores, ocreas, racers, rosace, scarer, and scorer, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarser. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cares, cores, races, scare, score, and sorer. For points, the strongest plays are acres, acros, carer, cares, carrs, carse, ceros, corer, cores, corse, crore, escar, ocrea, orcas, oscar, racer, races, scare, score, and serac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in coarser produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with care, cars, case, core, ears, eras, and race. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acre, acro, arco, arcs, care, carr, cars, case, cero, core, cors, ecos, ocas, orca, orcs, race, recs, rocs, scar, and soca — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling coarser turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are ace, arc, car, cor, cos, eco, oca, orc, rec, roc, sac, sec, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coarser. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ar, as, er, es, oe, or, os, re, and so — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in coarser and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
coarser is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
coarser is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coarser unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arroces and coarser, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coarser earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in coarser produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.