Hidden inside sauces sit causes and sauces, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
causes and sauces tie for the highest Scrabble score from sauces at 8 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in sauces: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sauces itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: causes and sauces, worth 8 points apiece in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sauces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cases, cause, and sauce. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cases, cause and sauce.
Rearranging the letters in sauces produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with case, cues and seas. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including case, cues and aces.
16 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sauces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sauces 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.
sauces 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for sauces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
sauces is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sauces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are causes and sauces, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sauces 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 sauces produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.