courageous needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 293 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
courageous is the highest-scoring word from courageous, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 293 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in courageous — and it is courageous itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling courageous produces exactly one eight-letter word: courages. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in courageous produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courage. For points, the strongest plays are cargoes, corsage, cougars, courage, scourge, scrooge, scrouge, and socager — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling courageous turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argues, course, graces, and source. For points, the strongest plays are cagers, cargos, cougar, graces, guacos, and socage — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courageous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with argue, cages, cares, cause, cores, cures, and curse. For points, the strongest plays are cager, cages, cargo, crags, grace, guaco, guacs, and scrag — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in courageous produces 95 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ages, cage, care, cars, case, core, and cues. For points, the strongest plays are cage, cogs, crag, guac, and scag — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling courageous turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, car, cue, ear, and ego. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courageous. If a familiar word is all you need, start with as, go, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ag and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
courageous 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for courageous. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
courageous is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing courageous unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is courageous, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from courageous 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 courageous produce 293 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 95 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.