COURSE is a valid Scrabble word — 8 points
Yes. COURSE is accepted by every list we check: Collins, the North American lists and Words with Friends. It scores 8 points in Scrabble and 10 in Words with Friends.
Which word lists accept COURSE?
| Official Scrabble Players DictionaryUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
|---|---|
| Official Tournament and Club Word ListUSA, Canada, Thailand | Valid |
| Collins Scrabble WordsEnglish in most countries | Valid |
| Words with FriendsZynga word list | Valid |
Word power: 39 / 100
Our own measure of how useful COURSE is to know. It scores 8 from 6 tiles, takes 4 hooks, and its letters make up 6.0% of the bag. How this number is calculated
Hooks for COURSE
Checked against OSPD, TWL, CSW, WWF. Takes an S, so it hooks onto plurals easily.
How COURSE scores
Face value of the 6 tiles in COURSE, before any board multiplier.
Tiles you need
| Letter | Needed | In the bag |
|---|---|---|
| c | 1 | 2 |
| o | 1 | 8 |
| u | 1 | 4 |
| r | 1 | 6 |
| s | 1 | 4 |
| e | 1 | 12 |
Drawing exactly these 6 tiles as an opening rack: 1 in 64,673.
What stands out about COURSE
- The same 6 tiles also spell 4 other words, so the rack is worth re-reading before you play it.
Counted from the four word lists we hold, not taken from anywhere else. How we calculate things
What does COURSE mean in Scrabble?
noun
The route, direction or path that something such as a ship, river or plan of action follows.
Course can describe the physical path a river or aircraft takes, the sequence of lessons that make up a school subject, or one part of a meal served in turn, and English keeps all of these senses under the same word because each involves something moving forward through a set order. In the fixed phrase of course, the word signals that something follows naturally and needs no argument. A ship holds its course, a student takes a course, and a diner works through the courses of dinner, three quite different pictures built from the same idea of ordered progress.
How COURSE is used
Extremely common; note the fixed phrase of course, meaning naturally or as expected.
- The captain altered course to avoid the storm.
- She enrolled in a course on medieval history.
- Dessert was the final course of a long dinner.
- Of course he remembered her birthday.
- The river changed course after the flood.
Written for this site: 1 meaning of COURSE and 5 example sentences, not copied from a published dictionary.
Anagrams of COURSE
The 6 tiles of COURSE in a different order — 4 found.
Words starting with COURSE
10 longer words begin with COURSE.
Shorter words from the letters in COURSE
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Common questions about COURSE
- Is COURSE valid in Words with Friends?
- Yes. Words with Friends accepts COURSE, where it scores 10 points. That game keeps its own list, separate from the Scrabble dictionaries.
- How many points is COURSE worth?
- COURSE is worth 8 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
- What does COURSE mean?
- The route, direction or path that something such as a ship, river or plan of action follows.
- What letters can be added to COURSE?
- COURSE takes 4 hooks: 1 in front and 3 at the end.
Every word you can build from the 6 letters of COURSE:
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