Unscramble SOURGUMS and you have 97 words, SOURGUMS itself among them: it scores 11 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. GRUMOUS and SOURGUM are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from SOURGUMS by length: 1 with 8 letters, 2 with 7, 2 with 6, 14 with 5, 35 with 4, 30 with 3 and 13 with 2.
Among 35 4-letter words you get when you unscramble SOURGUMS, the top score is 7, reached by 7. RUGS, GURU and MOSS are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of SOURGUMS for another and you can spell these 4 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with SO · ending in MS · all 8-letter words
SOURGUMS first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
SOURGUMS is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOURGUMS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 97) | 67 | 97 | 52 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: SMUGS, ROUMS, SMURS, SOUMS, MOUS, ROUM, SMUR, SOUM, SUGOS, UMUS, GORS, GOSS and 18 more, 30 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: SOURGUMS, SOURGUM, SMORGS, GORMS, SMORG, GORM, MUSOS, MUSO, SOMS, ORGS, SOM, UMS and 3 more, 15 in all.