Hidden inside ordain sit donair, inroad, and ordain, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
donair, inroad, and ordain tie for the highest Scrabble score from ordain at 7 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in ordain: two come from rearranging its letters, and ordain 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 donair, inroad, and ordain, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drain and radio. For points, 11 words tie at 6 points, including drain, radio and adorn.
Rearranging the letters in ordain produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with iron, rain, and road. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including road, arid and darn.
Unscrambling ordain turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and and. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including aid, and and rid.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordain. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and do. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and id.
13 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in ordain plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ordain 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.
ordain 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.
Dictionaries record four senses for ordain. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
ordain is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ordain unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are donair, inroad, and ordain, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ordain 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 ordain produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.