Hidden inside loured sit louder and loured, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
louder and loured tie for the highest Scrabble score from loured at 7 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in loured: one comes from rearranging its letters, and loured itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with louder. For points, the strongest plays are louder and loured — 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loured. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lured, older, and ruled. For points, the strongest plays are lured, older, ruled, 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 loured produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lord, loud, lure, rode, role, rude, and rule. For points, the strongest plays are doer, dole, dore, dour, duel, dure, duro, leud, lode, lord, loud, lude, ludo, olde, redo, rode, rude, and rued — 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 loured turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, led, old, our, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are del, doe, dol, dor, due, duo, eld, led, lud, ode, old, oud, red, rod, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in loured. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and or. 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 loured 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.
loured 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.
loured is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing loured unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are louder and loured, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from loured 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 loured produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.