Hidden inside scourges sit scourges and scrouges, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
scourges and scrouges tie for the highest Scrabble score from scourges at 11 points. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in scourges: one comes from rearranging its letters, and scourges itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are scourges and scrouges, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scourges produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courses and sources. For points, the strongest plays are scourge and scrouge — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling scourges turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with course, curses, scores, and source. For points, the strongest plays are cerous, corses, course, crosse, crouse, cruses, curses, cusser, scores, scours, scouse, 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scourges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cross, cures, curse, gross, guess, and roses. For points, the strongest plays are ceros, cores, corse, coses, cress, cross, cruse, cures, curse, cusso, ecrus, score, scour, 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 scourges produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with core, cues, cure, egos, goes, ours, and rose. For points, the strongest play is cogs — 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 scourges turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, ego, our, rug, sue, and use. For points, the strongest play is cog — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scourges. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest play is go — 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 scourges and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
scourges 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 scourges. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
scourges is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scourges unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are scourges and scrouges, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scourges 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 scourges produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.