Hidden inside loursy is one standout: sourly, a six-letter play worth 9 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
LOURSY isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to SOURLY (adverb), in a sour manner, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
sourly is the highest-scoring word from loursy, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling loursy produces exactly one six-letter word: sourly. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loursy. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lousy and yours. For points, the strongest plays are loury, lousy, surly, and yours — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in loursy produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, soul, sour, and your. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including your, lory and rosy.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in loursy plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in loursy 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sourly, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from loursy 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 loursy produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.