Hidden inside gourdes sit drogues, gourdes, and groused, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drogues, gourdes, and groused tie for the highest Scrabble score from gourdes at 9 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in gourdes: two come from rearranging its letters, and gourdes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drogues, gourdes, and groused, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gourdes turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drogue, gourde, gourds, rogued, rouged, and surged, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gourdes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drugs and urges. For points, the strongest plays are doges, dregs, drugs, gored, gourd, gudes, and urged — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in gourdes produces 59 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dogs, drug, egos, gods, goes, and ours. For points, the strongest plays are doge, dogs, dreg, drug, dugs, geds, gods, and gude — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling gourdes turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dog, due, dug, ego, god, our, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dog, dug, ged, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in gourdes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, go, 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 gourdes and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
gourdes 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.
gourdes is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing gourdes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drogues, gourdes, and groused, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from gourdes 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 gourdes produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 59 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.