Hidden inside scourge sit scourge and scrouge, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scourge and scrouge tie for the highest Scrabble score from scourge at 10 points. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in scourge: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scourge itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are scourge and scrouge, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scourge turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course and source. For points, the strongest plays are cerous, course, crouse, and source — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scourge. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cures and curse. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including cores, cures and curse.
Rearranging the letters in scourge produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cues and cure. For points, the strongest play is cogs — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling scourge turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, ego and our. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in scourge plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scourge 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.
scourge 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for scourge. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
scourge is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scourge unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are scourge and scrouge, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scourge 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 scourge produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.