Hidden inside cordiality sit cordiality and radiolytic, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 356 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cordiality and radiolytic tie for the highest Scrabble score from cordiality at 16 points. The top 10 of 356 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in cordiality: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cordiality itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cordiality and radiolytic, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordiality. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acridity, dialytic, and docility, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cordiality produces 19 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 acidity, acridly, dacoity and 2 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cordiality turns up 27 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acidly, dactyl, and idiocy, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 81 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordiality. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, daily and dairy. For points, the strongest plays are acidy, coady, dicty, and yclad — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cordiality produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card and cart. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including city, clay and acyl.
Unscrambling cordiality turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, cry, and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordiality. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
cordiality 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 cordiality. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
cordiality is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cordiality unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cordiality and radiolytic, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cordiality 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 cordiality produce 356 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 81 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.