courgette needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
courgette is the highest-scoring word from courgette, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in courgette — and it is courgette itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in courgette produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cortege, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling courgette turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gutter. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including cotter, couter and croute.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courgette. If a familiar word is all you need, start with court, cuter and greet. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including court, cuter and cruet.
Rearranging the letters in courgette produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cure and cute. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including core, cure and cute.
Unscrambling courgette turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, cut and ego. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in courgette plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in courgette and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
courgette 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for courgette. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
courgette is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing courgette unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is courgette, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from courgette 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 courgette produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.