Hidden inside lousier sit lousier and soilure, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lousier and soilure tie for the highest Scrabble score from lousier at 7 points. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in lousier: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lousier itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lousier. For points, the strongest plays are lousier and soilure — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lousier turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lories, louies, oilers, oriels, and reoils, 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lousier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with loser, louse, lures, roles, and rules. For points, the strongest plays are euros, ileus, liers, lieus, lores, loris, loser, louie, louis, lours, louse, lures, oiler, oriel, orles, osier, ourie, ousel, reoil, riels, riles, roils, roles, roues, rouse, rules, sieur, slier, solei, and sorel — 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 lousier produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lies, lose, lure, oils, ours, rise, and role. For points, the strongest plays are eros, euro, ires, isle, leis, lier, lies, lieu, lire, lore, lose, lour, lues, lure, oils, oles, ores, orle, ours, reis, riel, rile, rise, roes, roil, role, rose, roue, rues, rule, ruse, silo, sire, sloe, slue, slur, soil, sole, soli, sore, sori, soul, sour, suer, sure, and user — 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 lousier turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lie, oil, our, sir, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are els, ers, ire, lei, leu, lie, lis, lor, oes, oil, ole, ore, ors, ose, our, rei, res, roe, rue, sei, sel, ser, sir, sol, sou, sri, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lousier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with is, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are el, er, es, is, li, lo, oe, oi, or, os, re, si, 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 lousier and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
lousier 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.
lousier is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lousier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lousier and soilure, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lousier 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 lousier produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.