Hidden inside canoes sit canoes and oceans, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 69 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
canoes and oceans tie for the highest Scrabble score from canoes at 8 points. The top 10 of 69 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in canoes: one comes from rearranging its letters, and canoes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with oceans. For points, the strongest plays are canoes and oceans — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in canoes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cones and ocean. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including cones, ocean and acnes.
Rearranging the letters in canoes produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, case and cone. For points, 12 words tie at 6 points, including cans, case and cone.
Unscrambling canoes turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, con and one. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including can, con and ace.
13 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in canoes plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in canoes and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
canoes 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 two senses for canoes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
canoes is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing canoes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are canoes and oceans, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from canoes 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 canoes produce 69 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.