colchicum needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
colchicum is the highest-scoring word from colchicum, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in colchicum — and it is colchicum itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling colchicum produces exactly one six-letter word: holmic. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in colchicum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comic and couch. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including couch, chico and culch.
Rearranging the letters in colchicum produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with limo, much, and ouch. For points, the strongest plays are chic, choc, chum, and much — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling colchicum turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with him and oil. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including him, chi and hic.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in colchicum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hi, hm and ho. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in colchicum plus one additional letter.
colchicum 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 4-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 colchicum. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
colchicum is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing colchicum unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is colchicum, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from colchicum 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 colchicum produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 18 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.