Hidden inside louses sit louses, ousels, and soleus, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
louses, ousels, and soleus tie for the highest Scrabble score from louses at 6 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in louses: two come from rearranging its letters, and louses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with louses. For points, the strongest plays are louses, ousels, and soleus — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in louses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loses, louse, and souls. For points, the strongest plays are loess, loses, louse, ousel, sloes, slues, soles, solus, souls, and souse — 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 louses produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with less, lose, loss, soul, sues, and uses. For points, the strongest plays are less, lose, loss, lues, oles, oses, sels, sloe, slue, sole, sols, soul, sous, sues, and uses — 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 louses turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sue and use. For points, the strongest plays are els, ess, leu, oes, ole, ose, sel, sol, sos, sou, sue, sus, 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 louses. 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 louses 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.
louses 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 louses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
louses is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing louses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are louses, ousels, and soleus, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from louses 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 louses produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.