Hidden inside courser sit courser and scourer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
courser and scourer tie for the highest Scrabble score from courser at 9 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in courser: one comes from rearranging its letters, and courser 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 courser and scourer, 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 courser turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course, source, and sourer. For points, the strongest plays are cerous, corers, course, crores, crouse, cruors, curers, curser, cursor, recurs, scorer, 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courser. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cures, curse, score, sorer, and surer. For points, the strongest plays are ceros, corer, cores, corse, crore, cruor, cruse, curer, cures, currs, curse, ecrus, recur, 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 courser produces 30 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, curr, 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 courser turns up 26 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 courser. 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.
Swap a single tile in courser 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.
courser 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 four senses for courser. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
courser is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing courser unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are courser and scourer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from courser 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 courser produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.