Hidden inside cartoon sit cartoon and coranto, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cartoon and coranto tie for the highest Scrabble score from cartoon at 9 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in cartoon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cartoon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartoon. For points, the strongest plays are cartoon and coranto — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cartoon turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carton and racoon. For points, the strongest plays are cantor, carton, contra, corona, craton, croton, and racoon — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartoon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor. For points, the strongest plays are acorn, actor, canto, conto, cotan, croon, narco, octan, racon, and taroc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cartoon produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, coat, corn, onto, root, taco, and torn. For points, the strongest plays are acro, arco, cant, carn, cart, coat, coon, coot, corn, narc, orca, taco, toco, and torc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cartoon turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, art, can, car, cat, and con. For points, the strongest plays are act, arc, can, car, cat, con, coo, cor, cot, oca, orc, and roc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartoon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are an, ar, at, na, no, on, or, ta, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in cartoon and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
cartoon 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for cartoon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
cartoon is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cartoon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cartoon and coranto, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cartoon 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 cartoon produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.