Hidden inside resources sit recourses and resources, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recourses and resources tie for the highest Scrabble score from resources at 11 points. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in resources: one comes from rearranging its letters, and resources itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resources. For points, the strongest plays are recourses and resources — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resources. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resource. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including resource, coursers and recourse.
Rearranging the letters in resources produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courses, rescues, securer, and sources. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including courses, rescues and securer.
Unscrambling resources turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course, curses and recess. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including course, curses and recess.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resources. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cross and cures. For points, 23 words tie at 7 points, including cores, cross and cures.
Rearranging the letters in resources produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cues and cure. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including core, cues and cure.
Unscrambling resources turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, our and see. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including cue, cee and cor.
Swap a single tile in resources 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.
resources 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 three senses for resources. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
resources is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing resources unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are recourses and resources, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from resources 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 resources produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.