cursory needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cursory is the highest-scoring word from cursory, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in cursory — and it is cursory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cursory turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is scurry, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cursory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorry and yours. For points, the strongest plays are corys and curry — 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 cursory produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, sour, and your. For points, the strongest plays are 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 cursory turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, our, soy, and you. For points, the strongest plays are coy and cry — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cursory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 cursory 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.
cursory 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 1-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 cursory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cursory is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cursory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cursory, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cursory 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 cursory produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.