Hidden inside ordainer sit ordainer and reordain, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ordainer and reordain tie for the highest Scrabble score from ordainer at 9 points. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in ordainer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ordainer 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 ordainer and reordain, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ordainer produces 5 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 adorner, aneroid, drainer, randier, and readorn, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ordainer turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with errand and rained. For points, the strongest plays are adorer, arider, darner, denari, dinero, donair, droner, errand, inroad, ironed, ordain, raider, rained, roadie, and roared — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, diner, drain, drier, order, and radio. For points, the strongest plays are adore, adorn, aider, aired, andro, anode, ardor, aroid, danio, darer, deair, denar, dinar, diner, direr, drain, drear, drier, drone, irade, nadir, oared, order, oread, radio, radon, rando, ranid, rared, redan, redia, redon, rider, and ronde — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ordainer produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, dine, done, earn, idea, and iron. For points, the strongest plays are aide, arid, dare, darn, dean, dear, deni, dine, dino, dire, doer, dona, done, dore, dorr, idea, ired, nard, nerd, nide, node, nodi, odea, orad, raid, rand, read, redo, rend, ride, rind, road, rode, and roid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ordainer turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, are, die, ear, and end. For points, the strongest plays are ado, aid, and, dan, den, die, din, doe, don, dor, end, nod, oda, ode, rad, red, rid, and rod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, do, id, in, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 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 ordainer 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.
ordainer 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 one sense for ordainer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ordainer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ordainer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ordainer and reordain, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ordainer 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 ordainer produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.