Hidden inside coloureds sit coloureds and decolours, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 378 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coloureds and decolours tie for the highest Scrabble score from coloureds at 12 points. The top 10 of 378 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in coloureds: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coloureds 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 coloureds and decolours, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coloureds. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are closured, coloreds, coloured and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in coloureds produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closure and colored. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including colored, cloured and coursed.
Unscrambling coloureds turns up 59 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with closed, closer and clouds. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including closed, clouds and colder.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coloureds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with close, cloud and clues. For points, 30 words tie at 8 points, including cloud, codes and colds.
Rearranging the letters in coloureds produces 114 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clue, code and cold. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including code, cold and cord.
Unscrambling coloureds turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, due and led. For points, the strongest plays are cod, cud, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coloureds. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in coloureds plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in coloureds 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.
coloureds is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record four senses for coloureds. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
coloureds is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coloureds unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coloureds and decolours, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coloureds 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 coloureds produce 378 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 59 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 114 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.