Hidden inside octanols sit coolants and octanols, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 204 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coolants and octanols tie for the highest Scrabble score from octanols at 10 points. The top 10 of 204 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in octanols: one comes from rearranging its letters, and octanols 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 coolants and octanols, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in octanols produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coltans, coolant, and octanol, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling octanols turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colons. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including colons, cantos and cloots.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in octanols. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats and colas. For points, 32 words tie at 7 points, including coast, coats and colas.
Rearranging the letters in octanols produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also and ants. For points, 34 words tie at 6 points, including acts, cans and cast.
Unscrambling octanols turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and can. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and cat.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in octanols. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in octanols plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in octanols 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.
octanols 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.
octanols is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing octanols unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coolants and octanols, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from octanols 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 octanols produce 204 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.