Hidden inside corpse sit copers and corpse, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
copers and corpse tie for the highest Scrabble score from corpse at 10 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in corpse: one comes from rearranging its letters, and corpse itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corpse. For points, the strongest plays are copers and corpse — 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 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in corpse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, ropes, and score. For points, the strongest plays are coper, copes, copse, corps, crops, percs, and scope — 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 corpse produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cops, core, pose, pros, reps, rope, and rose. For points, the strongest plays are ceps, cope, cops, crop, pecs, perc, scop, and spec — each 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 corpse turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in corpse. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 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 corpse 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.
corpse 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 one sense for corpse. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
corpse is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing corpse unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are copers and corpse, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from corpse 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 corpse produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.