sojourner needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sojourner is the highest-scoring word from sojourner, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in sojourner — and it is sojourner itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sojourner produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are journos and sojourn, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sojourner turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sourer. For points, the strongest plays are journo and jurors — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sojourner. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nurse, sorer, and surer. For points, the strongest plays are jones and juror — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sojourner produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nose, ones and ours. For points, the strongest plays are jeon, joes, and soju — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sojourner turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, one and our. For points, the strongest plays are jeu, joe, jun, and jus — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sojourner. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on and or. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in sojourner plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sojourner 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.
sojourner 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for sojourner. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
sojourner is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sojourner unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sojourner, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sojourner 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 sojourner produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.