Hidden inside octan sit canto, cotan, and octan, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
canto, cotan, and octan tie for the highest Scrabble score from octan at 7 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in octan: two come from rearranging its letters, and octan itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canto, cotan, and octan, 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 octan produces 4 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coat and taco. For points, the strongest plays are cant, coat, and taco — 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 octan turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, not, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, con, cot, and oca — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in octan. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are an, at, na, no, on, ta, and to — 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 octan and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
octan 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.
octan is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing octan unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are canto, cotan, and octan, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from octan 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 octan produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.