Hidden inside cartoons sit cartoons, corantos, and ostracon, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cartoons, corantos, and ostracon tie for the highest Scrabble score from cartoons at 10 points. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in cartoons: two come from rearranging its letters, and cartoons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartoons. For points, the strongest plays are cartoons, corantos, and ostracon — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cartoons produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartons, cartoon, and racoons. For points, the strongest plays are cantors, cartons, cartoon, consort, contras, coranto, coronas, cratons, crotons, and racoons — 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 cartoons turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, carton, racoon, and scrota. For points, the strongest plays are acorns, actors, cantor, cantos, carton, castor, contos, contra, corona, costar, cotans, craton, croons, croton, narcos, nostoc, octans, racons, racoon, scrota, and tarocs — 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 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartoons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, carts, coast, coats, corns, roast, and roots. For points, the strongest plays are acorn, acros, actor, ascon, ascot, canso, canst, canto, cants, carns, carts, coast, coats, conto, coons, coots, corns, costa, cotan, croon, narco, narcs, octan, orcas, oscar, racon, scant, scart, scoot, scorn, scran, tacos, taroc, tocos, and torcs — 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 cartoons produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, arts, cans, cars, cart, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are acro, acts, arco, arcs, cans, cant, carn, cars, cart, cast, cats, coat, cons, coon, coos, coot, corn, cors, cost, cots, narc, ocas, orca, orcs, rocs, scan, scar, scat, scot, soca, 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 cartoons turns up 48 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, cos, cot, oca, orc, roc, sac, and soc — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cartoons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are an, ar, as, at, na, no, on, or, os, so, 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 cartoons and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
cartoons 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 cartoons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
cartoons is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cartoons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cartoons, corantos, and ostracon, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cartoons 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 cartoons produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.