Hidden inside tours sit roust, routs, stour and 2 others, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
roust, routs, stour and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from tours at 5 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 five-letter words hiding in tours: four come from rearranging its letters, and tours itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tours. For points, the strongest plays are roust, routs, stour, torus, and tours — 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 tours produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ours, sort, sour, and tour. For points, the strongest plays are orts, ours, oust, outs, rots, rout, rust, ruts, sort, sour, tors, tour, and trou — 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 tours turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with our and out. For points, the strongest plays are ors, ort, our, out, rot, rut, sot, sou, tor, and uts — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tours. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or, so, to, and us. For points, the strongest plays are or, os, so, to, us, and ut — 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 tours 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.
tours 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 one sense for tours. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 5 points on a Scrabble board:
tours is one of five five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tours unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are roust, routs, stour, torus, and tours, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tours 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 tours produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.