Hidden inside coursings sit coursings, scourings, and sourcings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coursings, scourings, and sourcings tie for the highest Scrabble score from coursings at 12 points. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in coursings: two come from rearranging its letters, and coursings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coursings, scourings, and sourcings, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coursings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crossing. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including crossing, coursing and scorings.
Rearranging the letters in coursings produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cousins, cursing, and scoring. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including cursing, scoring and congius.
Unscrambling coursings turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cousin, curing, and groins. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including curing, coigns and corgis.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coursings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, corns and cross. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including coign, corgi and cuing.
Rearranging the letters in coursings produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and corn. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and cogs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling coursings turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, gun and nor. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coursings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in coursings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in coursings 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.
coursings 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 coursings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
coursings is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coursings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coursings, scourings, and sourcings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coursings 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 coursings produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.