cordages needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 323 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cordages is the highest-scoring word from cordages, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 323 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in cordages — and it is cordages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cordages produces 7 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 cadgers, codgers, and cordage, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cordages turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, graces and grades. For points, the strongest plays are cadger, cadges, codger, and graced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, cages and cards. For points, the strongest plays are cadge and caged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cordages produces 115 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages and cage. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including cage, card and code.
Unscrambling cordages turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age and ago. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, cog, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and do. For points, 8 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and go.
Swap a single tile in cordages and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
cordages 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for cordages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cordages is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cordages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cordages, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cordages 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 cordages produce 323 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 115 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.