lousing needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lousing is the highest-scoring word from lousing, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in lousing — and it is lousing itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lousing turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with losing. For points, the strongest plays are gluons, lingos, logins, losing, lungis, sluing, and soling — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lousing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lions, lungs, suing, and using. For points, the strongest plays are gluon, iglus, lingo, lings, login, longs, lungi, lungs, sling, slung, suing, and using — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in lousing produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, lion, logs, long, lung, oils, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are gins, gnus, guls, guns, iglu, ling, logs, long, lugs, lung, nogs, nugs, sign, sing, slog, slug, snog, snug, song, and sung — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling lousing turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, log, oil, sin, son, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, gnu, gos, gul, gun, log, lug, nog, nug, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lousing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 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 lousing 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.
lousing 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
lousing is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lousing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is lousing, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from lousing 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 lousing produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.