Hidden inside console sit colones and console, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
colones and console tie for the highest Scrabble score from console at 9 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in console: one comes from rearranging its letters, and console 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 colones and console, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in console. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clone, close and colon. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including clone, close and colon.
Rearranging the letters in console produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cone, cons and cool. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including cone, cons and cool.
Unscrambling console turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, one, and son. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including con, cel and col.
12 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in console plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in console 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.
console 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for console. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
console is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing console unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are colones and console, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from console 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 console produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.