Hidden inside souring sit rousing and souring, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rousing and souring tie for the highest Scrabble score from souring at 8 points. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in souring: one comes from rearranging its letters, and souring itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are rousing and souring, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling souring turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groins. For points, the strongest plays are girons, grison, groins, guiros, rosing, signor, soring, and unrigs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in souring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with groin, irons, rings, ruins, suing, and using. For points, the strongest plays are girns, giron, giros, grins, groin, guiro, rings, ruing, rungs, suing, unrig, and using — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in souring produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with guns, iron, ours, rigs, ring, rugs, and ruin. For points, the strongest plays are gins, girn, giro, gnus, grin, guns, nogs, nugs, orgs, rigs, ring, rugs, rung, sign, sing, snog, snug, song, and sung — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling souring turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gun, nor, our, rig, rug, run, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are gin, gis, gnu, gor, gos, gun, nog, nug, org, rig, rug, and sig — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in souring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with go, in, is, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are gi and go — each worth 3 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 souring and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
souring 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 souring. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
souring is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing souring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are rousing and souring, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from souring 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 souring produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.