Hidden inside courante sit courante and outrance, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 267 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
courante and outrance tie for the highest Scrabble score from courante at 10 points. The top 10 of 267 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in courante: one comes from rearranging its letters, and courante itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are courante and outrance, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in courante produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counter. For points, the strongest plays are centaur, cornute, counter, courant, enactor, outrace, recount, trounce, and uncrate — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling courante turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carton and nature. For points, the strongest plays are acuter, canoer, canter, cantor, carnet, carton, centra, coater, contra, conure, cornea, cornet, cornua, coteau, couter, craton, croute, cuatro, curate, nectar, octane, ouncer, recant, recoat, retcon, tanrec, toucan, trance, and turaco — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courante. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cater, count, court, cuter, ocean, and outer. For points, the strongest plays are acorn, actor, acute, caner, canoe, canto, caret, carte, cater, cento, centu, conte, cornu, cotan, count, court, crane, crate, crone, cruet, curet, cuter, enact, eruct, nacre, narco, ocean, ocrea, octan, oncet, ounce, racon, rance, react, recon, recta, recto, recut, taroc, trace, and truce — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in courante produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, care, cart, cent, coat, and cone. For points, the strongest plays are acne, acre, acro, arco, cane, cant, care, carn, cart, cate, cent, cero, cert, coat, cone, core, corn, cote, cure, curn, curt, cute, ecru, narc, once, orca, race, tace, taco, torc, and unco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling courante turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, are, art, ate, can, and car. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, arc, can, car, cat, con, cor, cot, cru, cue, cur, cut, eco, ecu, oca, orc, rec, roc, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in courante. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, an, ar, at, en, er, et, na, ne, no, nu, oe, on, or, re, ta, te, to, un, and ut — each worth 2 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 courante and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
courante 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 3-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 courante. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
courante is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing courante unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are courante and outrance, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from courante 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 courante produce 267 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.