Unscramble GOURDES to get 200 words. GOURDES itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 11 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: DROGUES and GROUSED. The best shorter words score 8: 7 of them, SURGED, GOURDE and GOURDS included. It has 7 letters, 3 vowels and 4 consonants. GOURDES as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 46 in Words With Friends (11 + 35).
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from GOURDES by length: 3 with 7 letters, 17 with 6, 44 with 5, 60 with 4, 59 with 3 and 17 with 2.
9 of 44 5-letter words you get when you unscramble GOURDES tie at 7 points; none scores more. DRUGS, EUROS and ROUGE will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from GOURDES, 10 score 6 points, the group's best. USED, DOES and DRUG are the ones most people know.
59 3-letter words you get when you unscramble GOURDES; 5 of them share the top score of 5. USE, RED and GOD are everyday picks.
Keep every letter of GOURDES but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with GO · ending in ES · all 7-letter words
What GOURDES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept GOURDES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| GOURDES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 200) | 149 | 200 | 142 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
51 of the 200 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SODGER, DEGUS, GRUED, ORGUES, DEGS, DEGU, DEROS, DORSE, ERGOS, ORGUE, REGOS, RUDES and 39 more. 7 of the 200 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: DORES, RODES, SORED, ORGS, EDS, GOS and ORG.
These 5 words take every letter of GOURDES plus a single extra one.