Hidden inside collinear sit collinear and coralline, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 327 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
collinear and coralline tie for the highest Scrabble score from collinear at 11 points. The top 10 of 327 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in collinear: one comes from rearranging its letters, and collinear itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are collinear and coralline, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collinear. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acrolein, carillon, colinear and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in collinear produces 13 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 calorie, cariole, carline and 7 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling collinear turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caller, collar, and recall. For points, 35 words tie at 8 points, including caller, collar and recall.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collinear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alone and clean. For points, 44 words tie at 7 points, including clean, clear and clone.
Rearranging the letters in collinear produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with call, care and cell. For points, 44 words tie at 6 points, including call, care and cell.
Unscrambling collinear turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, all and are. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including can, car and con.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in collinear. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, in and no. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including an, in and no.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in collinear plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in collinear and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
collinear 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 collinear. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
collinear is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing collinear unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are collinear and coralline, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from collinear 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 collinear produce 327 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.