Hidden inside scourings sit coursings, scourings, and sourcings, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 228 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coursings, scourings, and sourcings tie for the highest Scrabble score from scourings at 12 points. The top 10 of 228 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in scourings: two come from rearranging its letters, and scourings itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coursings, scourings, and sourcings, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scourings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crossing. For points, the strongest plays are coursing, crossing, scorings, scouring, and sourcing — 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 scourings produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cousins, cursing, and scoring. For points, the strongest plays are congius, cosigns, cursing, cussing, and scoring — 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 scourings turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cousin, curing, and groins. For points, the strongest plays are coigns, corgis, coring, cosign, curing, and incogs — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scourings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, corns, cross, groin, gross, irons, and rings. For points, the strongest plays are coign, corgi, cuing, incog, and orgic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in scourings produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons, corn, guns, iron, ours, and rigs. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and cogs — 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 scourings turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, gun, nor, our, rig, rug, and run. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in scourings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, or, and so. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in scourings plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in scourings 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.
scourings 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.
scourings is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing scourings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coursings, scourings, and sourcings, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from scourings 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 scourings produce 228 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.