souchong needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
souchong is the highest-scoring word from souchong, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in souchong — and it is souchong itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling souchong produces exactly one seven-letter word: congous. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in souchong. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cough. For points, the strongest plays are chugs, cohog, cough, and gonch — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in souchong produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cons, gosh and guns. For points, the strongest play is chug — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling souchong turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, goo and gun. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in souchong. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, ho and no. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, sh, and uh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in souchong plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in souchong 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.
souchong 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 one sense for souchong. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
souchong is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing souchong unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is souchong, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from souchong 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 souchong produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.