Hidden inside cordon sit condor and cordon, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 34 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
condor and cordon tie for the highest Scrabble score from cordon at 9 points. The top 10 of 34 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in cordon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cordon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are condor and cordon, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with condo and donor. For points, the strongest plays are codon and condo — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cordon turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cordon plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cordon and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
cordon 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for cordon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
cordon is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cordon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are condor and cordon, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cordon 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 cordon produce 34 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.