Hidden inside cortax is one standout: oxcart, a six-letter play worth 15 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 46 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble CATORX, CROTAX or ROXTAC and you get the same 6 letters as CORTAX: so the words from CORTAX listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
CORTAX isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to OXCART (noun), an ox-drawn cart, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
oxcart is the highest-scoring word from cortax, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 46 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling cortax produces exactly one six-letter word: oxcart. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cortax produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, coat, and taco. For points, the strongest plays are coax and coxa — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cortax turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, art and car. For points, the strongest play is cox — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in cortax plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cortax 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 play from these letters is oxcart, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cortax 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 cortax produce 46 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.