cursorily needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 128 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cursorily is the highest-scoring word from cursorily, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 128 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in cursorily — and it is cursorily itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cursorily produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crusily and cursory, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cursorily turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lyrics. For points, the strongest plays are cosily, cruisy, lyrics, scurry, and sluicy — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cursorily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with curls, curly, lousy, lyric, sorry, and yours. For points, the strongest plays are cloys, corys, curly, curry, and lyric — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cursorily produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with curl, oils, ours, soli, soul, sour, and your. For points, the strongest plays are cloy, coly, cory, cosy, coys, and scry — 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 cursorily turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, oil, our, sir, soy, and you. For points, the strongest plays are coy, cry, and icy — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cursorily. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, oy, so, us, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy and yo — each worth 5 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 cursorily 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.
cursorily 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 one sense for cursorily. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
cursorily is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cursorily unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cursorily, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cursorily 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 cursorily produce 128 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.