cordierite needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cordierite is the highest-scoring word from cordierite, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in cordierite — and it is cordierite itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordierite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with directer and director. For points, the strongest plays are ciderier, creditor, dieretic, directer, director, and redirect — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cordierite produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dirtier and retired. For points, the strongest plays are cordite, decrier, dictier, eidetic, ericoid, recited, and tierced — 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 cordierite turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, direct, editor, erotic, record, and retire. For points, the strongest plays are citied, coedit, corder, credit, deceit, deicer, dicier, direct, recode, record, and triced — 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 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordierite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, drier, idiot, order, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cered, cider, cited, coder, cored, coted, credo, creed, cried, decor, deice, dicer, dicot, edict, iodic, and riced — 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 cordierite produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord, core, deer, dice, diet, and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, code, coed, cord, cred, deco, dice, iced, and odic — 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 cordierite turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, ice, red, rid, rod, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordierite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, it, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cordierite plus one additional letter.
cordierite 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 cordierite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
cordierite is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cordierite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cordierite, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cordierite 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 cordierite produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.