Hidden inside corners sit corners and scorner, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corners and scorner tie for the highest Scrabble score from corners at 9 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in corners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and corners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corners. For points, the strongest plays are corners and scorner — 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 corners turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corner. For points, the strongest plays are censor, corers, corner, crones, crores, recons, and scorer — 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 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in corners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cones, cores, corns, score, and sorer. For points, the strongest plays are ceros, cones, corer, cores, corns, corse, crone, crore, recon, scone, score, and scorn — 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 corners produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons, core, corn, nose, once, and ones. For points, the strongest plays are cero, cone, cons, core, corn, cors, ecos, once, orcs, recs, and rocs — 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 corners turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor, one, and son. For points, the strongest plays are con, cor, cos, eco, orc, rec, roc, sec, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in corners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, ne, no, oe, on, or, os, re, and so — 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 corners 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.
corners 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 fourteen senses for corners. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
corners is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing corners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corners and scorner, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from corners 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 corners produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.