Hidden inside condoning sit condoning and noncoding, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
condoning and noncoding tie for the highest Scrabble score from condoning at 13 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in condoning: one comes from rearranging its letters, and condoning 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 condoning and noncoding, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in condoning produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is condign, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in condoning. If a familiar word is all you need, start with condo, doing, and onion. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including condo, codon and cogon.
Rearranging the letters in condoning produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, good, and noon. For points, the strongest play is odic — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling condoning turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, dig and dog. For points, the strongest plays are cig, cod, cog, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in condoning 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.
condoning 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
condoning is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing condoning unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are condoning and noncoding, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from condoning 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 condoning produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.