Unscramble COLURES and you have 184 words, COLURES itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. 1 anagram of COLURES is on the page: CLOSURE, each 9 points. The 7 letters split into 3 vowels and 4 consonants. COLURES as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from COLURES by length: 2 with 7 letters, 19 with 6, 48 with 5, 60 with 4, 43 with 3 and 12 with 2.
28 of 48 5-letter words from COLURES tie at 7 points; none scores more. CLOSE, RULES and SCORE will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble COLURES, 28 score 6 points, the group's best. SURE, ROLE and RULE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of COLURES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with CO · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
What COLURES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
COLURES works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| COLURES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 184) | 141 | 184 | 133 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: COURES, CRUELS, ESCROL, CLOUS, COURE, COURS, CRUES, LEUCO, SOUCE, CLOU, COSE, COUR and 31 more, 43 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CORS, ECOS, LOCS, CRU, ECO, LOC, SOC and LOR, 8 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of COLURES plus a single extra one.