Hidden inside louse sit louse and ousel, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
louse and ousel tie for the highest Scrabble score from louse at 5 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in louse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and louse itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with louse. For points, the strongest plays are louse and ousel — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in louse produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lose and soul. For points, the strongest plays are lose, lues, oles, sloe, slue, sole, and soul — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling louse turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sue and use. For points, the strongest plays are els, leu, oes, ole, ose, sel, sol, sou, sue, and use — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in louse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with so and us. For points, the strongest plays are el, es, lo, oe, os, so, and us — each worth 2 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 louse and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
louse 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 four senses for louse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
louse is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing louse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are louse and ousel, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from louse 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 louse produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.