Hidden inside cordons sit condors and cordons, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
condors and cordons tie for the highest Scrabble score from cordons at 10 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in cordons: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cordons itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are condors and cordons, 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 cordons turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with condos and donors. For points, the strongest plays are codons, condor, condos, and cordon — 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 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with condo, cords, corns, donor, doors, and odors. For points, the strongest plays are codon, condo, cords, and scrod — 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 cordons produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cons, cord, corn, door, odor, rods, and soon. For points, the strongest plays are cods, cord, and docs — 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 cordons turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor, rod, and son. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cordons. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are do 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.
Swap a single tile in cordons 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.
cordons 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 cordons. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
cordons is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cordons unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are condors and cordons, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cordons 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 cordons produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.