ordnance needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ordnance is the highest-scoring word from ordnance, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in ordnance — and it is ordnance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ordnance produces exactly one seven-letter word: acorned. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ordnance turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with canned and dancer. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including canned, dancer and acnode.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordnance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, cared and dance. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including cared, dance and raced.
Rearranging the letters in ordnance produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with card, care and code. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including card, code and cord.
Unscrambling ordnance turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are and can. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordnance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and do. For points, 6 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and da.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in ordnance plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ordnance 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.
ordnance 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 two senses for ordnance. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ordnance is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ordnance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ordnance, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ordnance 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 ordnance produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 18 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.