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SOURS

5 letters, 5 points in Scrabble, 2 vowels

What SOURS Means

SOURS is a form of SOUR, which means:

  1. adjective: smelling of fermentation or staleness
  2. adjective: having a sharp biting taste
  3. noun: a cocktail made of a liquor (especially whiskey or gin) mixed with lemon or lime juice and sugar
  4. noun: the taste experience when vinegar or lemon juice is taken into the mouth

Similar words

Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

SOURS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 5 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as S1 O1 U1 R1 S1.

Anagrams of SOURS (1)

Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.

Words Made From The Letters In SOURS

16 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

4 letter words (3)

3 letter words (7)

2 letter words (6)

Longer Words Containing SOURS

SOURS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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