Hidden inside resources sit recourses and resources, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
recourses and resources tie for the highest Scrabble score from resources at 11 points. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in resources: one comes from rearranging its letters, and resources itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resources. For points, the strongest plays are recourses and resources — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resources. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resource. For points, the strongest plays are coursers, recourse, rescores, rescuers, resource, scourers, and securers — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in resources produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courses, rescues, securer, and sources. For points, the strongest plays are ceruses, courser, courses, crosser, cursers, cursors, recross, recuses, rescore, rescuer, rescues, scorers, scourer, securer, secures, sources, and sucrose — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling resources turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course, curses, recess, rescue, scores, secure, and source. For points, the strongest plays are cereus, cerous, ceruse, corers, corses, course, crores, crosse, crouse, cruors, cruses, curers, curser, curses, cursor, cusser, recess, recurs, recuse, rescue, scorer, scores, scours, scouse, screes, secure, source, and sucres — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resources. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cross, cures, curse, roses, score, and sorer. For points, the strongest plays are ceres, ceros, corer, cores, corse, coses, cress, crore, cross, cruor, cruse, curer, cures, currs, curse, cusso, ecrus, recur, score, scour, scree, soces, and sucre — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in resources produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cues, cure, ours, rose, sees, and sore. For points, the strongest plays are cees, cere, cero, cess, core, cors, coss, crus, cues, cure, curr, curs, cuss, ecos, ecru, ecus, orcs, recs, rocs, and secs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling resources turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, our, see, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cor, cos, cru, cue, cur, eco, ecu, orc, rec, roc, sec, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in resources. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, oe, or, os, re, 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 resources and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
resources 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 three senses for resources. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
resources is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing resources unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are recourses and resources, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from resources 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 resources produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.