Hidden inside cortan sit cantor, carton, contra and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 70 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
CORTAN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CANTOR, CARTON, CONTRA and CRATON.
cantor, carton, contra and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from cortan at 8 points. The top 10 of 70 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling cortan turns up 4 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carton. For points, the strongest plays are cantor, carton, contra, and craton — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cortan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including actor, acorn and canto.
Rearranging the letters in cortan produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, coat and corn. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including cart, coat and corn.
Unscrambling cortan turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and art. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
Swap a single tile in cortan 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cantor, carton, contra, and craton, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cortan 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 cortan produce 70 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.