Hidden inside ordainers sit ordainers, reordains, and serranoid, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 493 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ordainers, reordains, and serranoid tie for the highest Scrabble score from ordainers at 10 points. The top 10 of 493 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in ordainers: two come from rearranging its letters, and ordainers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ordainers, reordains, and serranoid, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordainers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adorners, aneroids, anodiser and 6 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ordainers produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with errands. For points, 26 words tie at 8 points, including errands, adorers and adorner.
Unscrambling ordainers turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, diners and drains. For points, 65 words tie at 7 points, including adores, diners and drains.
There are 130 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordainers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired and aside. For points, 79 words tie at 6 points, including adore, aired and aside.
Rearranging the letters in ordainers produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and near. For points, 67 words tie at 5 points, including aids, nerd and read.
Unscrambling ordainers turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 27 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and and.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordainers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and id.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ordainers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ordainers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
ordainers 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 ordainers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
ordainers is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ordainers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ordainers, reordains, and serranoid, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ordainers 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 ordainers produce 493 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 130 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.