Hidden inside cordate sit cordate and redcoat, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cordate and redcoat tie for the highest Scrabble score from cordate at 10 points. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in cordate: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cordate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cordate and redcoat, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cordate turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are carted, coated, crated, redact, and traced, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, actor, adore, cared, cater, raced, and react. For points, the strongest plays are acred, acted, arced, cadet, cadre, cared, cedar, coder, cored, coted, credo, decor, octad, and raced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cordate produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care, cart, coat, code, cord, and core. For points, the strongest plays are aced, cade, card, coda, code, coed, cord, cred, dace, and deco — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cordate turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, are, art, ate, car, cat, and dot. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, do, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 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 cordate and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
cordate 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 1-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 cordate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
cordate is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cordate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cordate and redcoat, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cordate 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 cordate produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.