Hidden inside cornices sit conciser, cornices, and croceins, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 188 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conciser, cornices, and croceins tie for the highest Scrabble score from cornices at 12 points. The top 10 of 188 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in cornices: two come from rearranging its letters, and cornices 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 conciser, cornices, and croceins, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cornices produces 9 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 ciceros, concise, cornice, crocein, and crocine, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cornices turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with senior and soccer. For points, the strongest plays are cercis, cicero, conics, scenic, sconce, and soccer — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cornices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones, cores, corns, cries, irons, and nicer. For points, the strongest plays are cerci, ceric, circs, cisco, conic, cosec, croci, crocs, and secco — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cornices produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone, cons, core, corn, ices, and iron. For points, the strongest play is croc — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling cornices turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, nor, one, sin, sir, and son. For points, the strongest plays are cis, con, cor, cos, eco, ice, orc, rec, roc, sec, sic, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cornices. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, in, is, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, and so — each worth 2 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 cornices 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.
cornices 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 four senses for cornices. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cornices is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cornices unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are conciser, cornices, and croceins, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cornices 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 cornices produce 188 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.