ordinance needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 336 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ordinance is the highest-scoring word from ordinance, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 336 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ordinance — and it is ordinance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordinance. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crannied and ordnance, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ordinance produces 10 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 acorned, cairned, codeina, dancier, and nonacid, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ordinance turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with canned, coined, dancer, dinner, and rained. For points, the strongest plays are acnode, anodic, candor, canned, canoed, cardio, cardon, caried, cedarn, cinder, cnidae, codeia, codein, coined, conned, corned, craned, dacron, dancer, deacon, decani, nacred, nordic, and rancid — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordinance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, cared, cried, dance, diner, and drain. For points, the strongest plays are acned, acred, acrid, arced, cadre, caird, caned, canid, cared, cedar, cider, cnida, coden, coder, coned, cored, credo, cried, dance, daric, decan, decor, dicer, nicad, raced, and riced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ordinance produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card, care, code, coin, cone, and cord. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, caid, card, cedi, coda, code, coed, cord, cred, dace, deco, dice, iced, and odic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ordinance turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, are, can, car, and con. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 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 ordinance. 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ordinance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ordinance 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.
ordinance 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for ordinance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ordinance is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ordinance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ordinance, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ordinance 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 ordinance produce 336 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.