Hidden inside southers sit shouters and southers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 268 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
shouters and southers tie for the highest Scrabble score from southers at 11 points. The top 10 of 268 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in southers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and southers 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 shouters and southers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in southers produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sourest. For points, the strongest plays are horstes, housers, shouter, and souther — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling southers turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horses, houses and others. For points, 25 words tie at 9 points, including horses, houses and others.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with horse, hoses and hosts. For points, 32 words tie at 8 points, including horse, hoses and hosts.
Rearranging the letters in southers produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hero, hers and hose. For points, 33 words tie at 7 points, including hero, hers and hose.
Unscrambling southers turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with her, hot and our. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including her, hot and she.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in southers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and ho. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and ho.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in southers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in southers 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.
southers 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in southers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for southers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
southers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing southers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are shouters and southers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from southers 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 southers produce 268 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.