costard needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
costard is the highest-scoring word from costard, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in costard — and it is costard itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling costard turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors and scrota. For points, the strongest play is octads — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cards, carts, coast, coats, cords, and roads. For points, the strongest plays are cards, codas, cords, octad, and scrod — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in costard produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts, card, cars, cart, cast, and cats. For points, the strongest plays are cads, card, coda, cods, cord, docs, and scad — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling costard turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, art, car, cat, dot, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in costard. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, do, and od — each worth 3 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 costard and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
costard 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
costard is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing costard unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is costard, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from costard 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 costard produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.