cordite needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cordite is the highest-scoring word from cordite, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in cordite — and it is cordite itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cordite turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, direct, editor, and erotic. For points, the strongest plays are coedit, credit, direct, and triced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, tired, and tried. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including cried, cider and cited.
Rearranging the letters in cordite produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord and core. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including code, cord and dice.
Unscrambling cordite turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordite. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and it. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, id and de.
11 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in cordite plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cordite 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.
cordite 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 cordite. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
cordite is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cordite unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cordite, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cordite 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 cordite produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.