Hidden inside sourcing sit coursing, scouring, and sourcing, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 180 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coursing, scouring, and sourcing tie for the highest Scrabble score from sourcing at 11 points. The top 10 of 180 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in sourcing: two come from rearranging its letters, and sourcing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coursing, scouring, and sourcing, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sourcing produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cursing and scoring. For points, the strongest plays are congius, cursing, and scoring — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sourcing turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cousin, curing, and groins. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including curing, coigns and corgis.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sourcing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, corns and groin. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including coign, corgi and cuing.
Rearranging the letters in sourcing produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and corn. For points, the strongest plays are cigs and cogs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sourcing turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, gun and nor. For points, the strongest plays are cig and cog — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sourcing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
10 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in sourcing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sourcing 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.
sourcing 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.
sourcing is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sourcing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coursing, scouring, and sourcing, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sourcing 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 sourcing produce 180 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.