Hidden inside gourde sit drogue, gourde, rogued and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drogue, gourde, rogued and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from gourde at 8 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in gourde: three come from rearranging its letters, and gourde itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drogue, gourde, rogued, and rouged, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gourde. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are gored, gourd, and urged, 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 gourde produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drug, rode, rude, and urge. For points, the strongest plays are doge, dreg, drug, and gude — 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 gourde turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, due, dug, ego, god, our, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dog, dug, ged, and god — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gourde. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, go, and od — each worth 3 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 gourde 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.
gourde 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 gourde. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
gourde is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gourde unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drogue, gourde, rogued, and rouged, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gourde 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 gourde produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.