cedarwood needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 175 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cedarwood is the highest-scoring word from cedarwood, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 175 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in cedarwood — and it is cedarwood itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cedarwood produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: crowded, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cedarwood turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adored and coward. For points, the strongest plays are coward and crowed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cedarwood. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, cared and crowd. For points, the strongest plays are cawed, cowed, and crowd — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cedarwood produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care and code. For points, the strongest plays are craw, crew, and crow — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cedarwood turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, are and car. For points, the strongest plays are caw and cow — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cedarwood. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, aw and do. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including aw, ew and ow.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in cedarwood plus one additional letter.
cedarwood 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 one sense for cedarwood. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
cedarwood is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cedarwood unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cedarwood, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cedarwood 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 cedarwood produce 175 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.