Hidden inside actor sit actor and taroc, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TOARC, OARTC or ATCOR and you get the same 5 letters as ACTOR: so the words from ACTOR listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
actor and taroc tie for the highest Scrabble score from actor at 7 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in actor: one comes from rearranging its letters, and actor itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor. For points, the strongest plays are actor and taroc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in actor produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, coat, and taco. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including cart, coat and taco.
Unscrambling actor turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, art and car. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including act, car and cat.
22 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in actor plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in actor and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
actor is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for actor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
actor is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing actor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actor and taroc, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from actor earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in actor produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.