sourpusses needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 150 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sourpusses is the highest-scoring word from sourpusses, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 150 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in sourpusses — and it is sourpusses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sourpusses. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sourpuss and uprouses, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sourpusses produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with possess and pursues. For points, the strongest plays are poseurs, possess, prosses, pursues, spouses, and uprouse — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sourpusses turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with purses and pursue. For points, the strongest plays are opuses, posers, poseur, posses, proses, purses, pursue, pusses, spores, spouse, sprues, supers, uprose, and usurps — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sourpusses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poses, pours, press, purse, ropes, roses, and soups. For points, the strongest plays are pesos, pores, poser, poses, posse, pours, press, prose, pross, purse, puses, repos, ropes, roups, soups, spore, sprue, spues, spurs, super, supes, and usurp — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sourpusses produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, pose, pour, pros, pure, reps, and rope. For points, the strongest plays are epos, opes, opus, peso, pore, pose, pour, pros, pure, purs, puss, repo, reps, rope, roup, seps, sops, soup, spue, spur, supe, sups, and urps — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sourpusses turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with our, per, pro, rep, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are ope, ops, per, pes, pos, pro, pur, pus, rep, sop, sup, upo, ups, and urp — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sourpusses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, up, and us. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
sourpusses 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 sourpusses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
sourpusses is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sourpusses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is sourpusses, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from sourpusses 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 sourpusses produce 150 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.