Hidden inside sores sit roses and sores, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
roses and sores tie for the highest Scrabble score from sores at 5 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in sores: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sores itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roses. For points, the strongest plays are roses and sores — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sores produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rose and sore. For points, the strongest plays are eros, ores, oses, roes, rose, sers, and sore — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sores turns up 10 three-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these three-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ers, ess, oes, ore, ors, ose, res, roe, ser, and sos, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sores. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and so. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, oe, or, os, re, and so — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
46 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in sores plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sores and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
sores 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in sores carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for sores. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
sores is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sores unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are roses and sores, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sores 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 sores produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.