Hidden inside course sit cerous, course, crouse and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cerous, course, crouse and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from course at 8 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in course: three come from rearranging its letters, and course itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course and source. For points, the strongest plays are cerous, course, crouse, and source — 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in course. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cures, curse, and score. For points, the strongest plays are ceros, cores, corse, cruse, cures, curse, ecrus, score, scour, and sucre — 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 course produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cues, cure, ours, rose, sore, and sour. For points, the strongest plays are cero, core, cors, crus, cues, cure, curs, ecos, ecru, ecus, orcs, recs, and rocs — 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 course turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, our, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are cor, cos, cru, cue, cur, eco, ecu, orc, rec, roc, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in course. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, oe, or, os, re, so, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
27 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in course plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in course and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
course 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record thirteen senses for course. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
course is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing course unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cerous, course, crouse, and source, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from course 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 course produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.