Hidden inside consul sit clonus and consul, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clonus and consul tie for the highest Scrabble score from consul at 8 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in consul: one comes from rearranging its letters, and consul itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clonus and consul, 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 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in consul. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are clons, conus, locus, and uncos, 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 consul produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cons and soul. For points, the strongest plays are clon, cols, cons, locs, and unco — 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 consul turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, son, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are col, con, 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in consul. If a familiar word is all you need, start with no, on, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are lo, no, nu, on, os, so, un, and us — 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 consul 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.
consul 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 consul. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
consul is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing consul unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clonus and consul, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from consul 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 consul produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.