Hidden inside sours sit sorus and sours, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 14 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
sorus and sours tie for the highest Scrabble score from sours at 5 points. The top 10 of 14 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in sours: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sours itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are sorus and sours, 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 sours produces 3 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours and sour. For points, the strongest plays are ours, sour, and sous — 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 sours turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with our. For points, the strongest plays are ors, our, sos, sou, and sus — 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 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are or, os, 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 sours and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
sours 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.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for sours. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
sours is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sours unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are sorus and sours, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sours 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 sours produce 14 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 3 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.