Hidden inside octans sit cantos, cotans, and octans, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 77 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cantos, cotans, and octans tie for the highest Scrabble score from octans at 8 points. The top 10 of 77 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in octans: two come from rearranging its letters, and octans itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cantos, cotans, and octans, 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in octans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats, and tacos. For points, the strongest plays are ascon, ascot, canso, canst, canto, cants, coast, coats, costa, cotan, octan, scant, and tacos — 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 octans produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, cans, cast, cats, coat, and cons. For points, the strongest plays are acts, cans, cant, cast, cats, coat, cons, cost, cots, ocas, scan, scat, scot, soca, 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 octans turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, not, and sat. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, con, cos, cot, oca, sac, and soc — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in octans. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are an, as, at, na, no, on, os, so, 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 octans and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
octans 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 octans. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
octans is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing octans unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cantos, cotans, and octans, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from octans 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 octans produce 77 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.