Hidden inside codon sit codon and condo, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
codon and condo tie for the highest Scrabble score from codon at 8 points. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in codon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and codon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with condo. For points, the strongest plays are codon and condo — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling codon produces exactly one four-letter word: coon. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling codon turns up 8 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in codon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are do and od — each worth 3 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 codon and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
codon 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 one sense for codon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
codon is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing codon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are codon and condo, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from codon 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 codon produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.