Hidden inside colds sit clods, colds, and scold, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clods, colds, and scold tie for the highest Scrabble score from colds at 8 points. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in colds: two come from rearranging its letters, and colds itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colds. For points, the strongest plays are clods, colds, and scold — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in colds produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cold and sold. For points, the strongest plays are clod, cods, cold, and docs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling colds turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with old. 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in colds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and so. 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 colds 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.
colds 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 sixteen senses for colds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
colds is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing colds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clods, colds, and scold, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from colds 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 colds produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.