Hidden inside toured sit detour, redout, routed and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detour, redout, routed and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from toured at 7 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in toured: three come from rearranging its letters, and toured itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are detour, redout, routed, and toured, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toured. If a familiar word is all you need, start with outer and route. For points, the strongest plays are doter, outed, trode, trued, and uredo — 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 toured produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rode, rude, tore, tour, and true. For points, the strongest plays are doer, dore, dote, dour, dout, duet, dure, duro, redo, rode, rude, rued, toed, trod, and turd — 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 toured turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, due, our, out, red, rod, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are doe, dor, dot, due, duo, ode, oud, red, rod, ted, tod, udo, and urd — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in toured. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — 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 toured and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
toured 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.
toured is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing toured unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detour, redout, routed, and toured, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from toured 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 toured produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.