Hidden inside corders sit corders and records, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corders and records tie for the highest Scrabble score from corders at 10 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in corders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and corders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with records. For points, the strongest plays are corders and records — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling corders turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with orders, record, and scored. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including record, scored and coders.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in corders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, cords and cores. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including codes, cords and coder.
Rearranging the letters in corders produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord and core. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including code, cord and cods.
Unscrambling corders turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with red and rod. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in corders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in corders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in corders 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.
corders 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.
corders is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing corders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corders and records, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from corders 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 corders produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.