Hidden inside sourer sit rouser and sourer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rouser and sourer tie for the highest Scrabble score from sourer at 6 points. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in sourer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sourer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sourer. For points, the strongest plays are rouser and sourer — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sourer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorer and surer. For points, the strongest plays are euros, roues, rouse, ruers, sorer, and surer — 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 sourer produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, rose, sore, sour, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are eros, errs, euro, ores, ours, roes, rose, roue, ruer, rues, ruse, sore, sour, suer, sure, and user — 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 sourer turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with our, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are err, ers, oes, ore, ors, ose, our, res, roe, rue, ser, sou, sue, and use — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sourer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are er, es, oe, or, os, re, so, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in sourer and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
sourer 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
sourer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sourer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rouser and sourer, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sourer 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 sourer produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.