Hidden inside corniche sit corniche and enchoric, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 129 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corniche and enchoric tie for the highest Scrabble score from corniche at 15 points. The top 10 of 129 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in corniche: one comes from rearranging its letters, and corniche itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are corniche and enchoric, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in corniche produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are choicer, choreic, chronic, and conchie, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling corniche turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choice and heroin. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including choice, chicer and choric.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in corniche. If a familiar word is all you need, start with choir, chore, and nicer. For points, the strongest plays are chico, cinch, and conch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in corniche produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chin, coin and cone. For points, the strongest plays are chic and choc — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling corniche turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, hen and her. For points, the strongest plays are chi, hic, ich, and och — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in corniche. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including eh, he and hi.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in corniche plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in corniche and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
corniche 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.
corniche is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing corniche unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corniche and enchoric, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from corniche 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 corniche produce 129 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.