Hidden inside cortisone sit cortisone and crooniest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 462 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cortisone and crooniest tie for the highest Scrabble score from cortisone at 11 points. The top 10 of 462 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in cortisone: one comes from rearranging its letters, and cortisone itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cortisone and crooniest, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cortisone. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cointers, coonties, corniest and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cortisone produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notices, scooter, and section. For points, 25 words tie at 9 points, including notices, scooter and section.
Unscrambling cortisone turns up 83 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erotic, nicest and notice. For points, 48 words tie at 8 points, including erotic, nicest and notice.
There are 130 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cortisone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins and cones. For points, 55 words tie at 7 points, including cents, coins and cones.
Rearranging the letters in cortisone produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin and cone. For points, 42 words tie at 6 points, including cent, coin and cone.
Unscrambling cortisone turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and its. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including con, ice and cis.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cortisone. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in cortisone plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cortisone and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
cortisone 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 cortisone. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cortisone is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cortisone unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cortisone and crooniest, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cortisone 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 cortisone produce 462 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 83 six-letter words, 130 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.