sojourners needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 164 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sojourners is the highest-scoring word from sojourners, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 164 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in sojourners — and it is sojourners itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sojourners produces exactly one nine-letter word: sojourner. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sojourners produces exactly one eight-letter word: sojourns. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sojourners produces 10 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 sojourners turns up 24 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nurses and sourer. For points, the strongest plays are journo and jurors — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sojourners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noses, nurse and roses. For points, the strongest plays are jones, juror, and sojus — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sojourners produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nose, ones and ours. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including jeon, jess and joes.
Unscrambling sojourners turns up 38 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 sojourners. 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.
sojourners 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 sojourners. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
sojourners is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sojourners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sojourners, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sojourners 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 sojourners produce 164 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 24 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.