Hidden inside codesign sit codesign, cognised, and cosigned, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 239 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
codesign, cognised, and cosigned tie for the highest Scrabble score from codesign at 12 points. The top 10 of 239 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in codesign: two come from rearranging its letters, and codesign itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are codesign, cognised, and cosigned, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in codesign produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are codings and coigned, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling codesign turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, design, second, and signed. For points, the strongest plays are ceding, coding, and geodic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 47 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in codesign. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, coins and cones. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including codes, dices and disco.
Rearranging the letters in codesign produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, coin and cone. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including code, dice and cedi.
Unscrambling codesign turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die and dig. For points, the strongest plays are cig, cod, cog, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in codesign. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, go and id. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including do, go and id.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in codesign plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in codesign 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.
codesign 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
codesign is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing codesign unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are codesign, cognised, and cosigned, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from codesign 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 codesign produce 239 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 47 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.