Hidden inside colons sit colons and consol, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
colons and consol tie for the highest Scrabble score from colons at 8 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in colons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and colons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colons. For points, the strongest plays are colons and consol — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in colons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colon and cools. For points, the strongest plays are clons, colon, cools, coons, and locos — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in colons produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cons, cool, solo, and soon. For points, the strongest plays are clon, cols, cons, cool, coon, coos, loco, and locs — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling colons turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con and son. For points, the strongest plays are col, con, coo, cos, loc, and soc — each worth 5 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 colons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are lo, no, on, os, and so — each worth 2 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 colons and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
colons 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for colons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
colons is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing colons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are colons and consol, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from colons 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 colons produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.