Hidden inside ordnances sit nonsacred and ordnances, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 445 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nonsacred and ordnances tie for the highest Scrabble score from ordnances at 12 points. The top 10 of 445 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in ordnances: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ordnances 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 nonsacred and ordnances, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordnances. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are endosarc and ordnance, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ordnances produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dancers. For points, 9 words tie at 10 points, including dancers, acnodes and acorned.
Unscrambling ordnances turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, canned and dancer. For points, 26 words tie at 9 points, including canned, dancer and dances.
There are 130 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordnances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, cards and cared. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including cards, cared and codes.
Rearranging the letters in ordnances produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with near, nerd and none. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including card, code and cord.
Unscrambling ordnances turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and are. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordnances. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 6 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and da.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in ordnances plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ordnances 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.
ordnances 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 ordnances. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
ordnances is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ordnances unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are nonsacred and ordnances, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ordnances 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 ordnances produce 445 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 130 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.