ordinances needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 840 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ordinances is the highest-scoring word from ordinances, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 840 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ordinances — and it is ordinances itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ordinances turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canonised, nonsacred, ordinance and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordinances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with consider and scenario. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including consider, codeinas and crannied.
Rearranging the letters in ordinances produces 76 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, dancers, dinners, and insaner. For points, 26 words tie at 10 points, including candies, dancers and acnodes.
Unscrambling ordinances turns up 172 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, canned and casino. For points, 45 words tie at 9 points, including canned, coined and dancer.
There are 238 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordinances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cards, cared and cares. For points, 46 words tie at 8 points, including cards, cared and codes.
Rearranging the letters in ordinances produces 204 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids and airs. For points, 22 words tie at 7 points, including acid, card and code.
Unscrambling ordinances turns up 96 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordinances. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in ordinances plus one additional letter.
ordinances 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 ordinances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ordinances is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ordinances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ordinances, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ordinances 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 ordinances produce 840 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 76 seven-letter words, 172 six-letter words, 238 five-letter words, 204 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.