Hidden inside chords sit chords and schrod, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
chords and schrod tie for the highest Scrabble score from chords at 12 points. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in chords: one comes from rearranging its letters, and chords itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are chords and schrod, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chords. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cords. For points, the strongest play is chord — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in chords produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cord and rods. For points, the strongest play is cosh — 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 chords turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rod. For points, the strongest play is och — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in chords. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ho, oh, or, sh, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ho, oh, and sh — each worth 5 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 chords 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.
chords 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in chords carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record four senses for chords. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
chords is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing chords unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are chords and schrod, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from chords 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 chords produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.