Hidden inside ostracon sit cartoons, corantos, and ostracon, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 233 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cartoons, corantos, and ostracon tie for the highest Scrabble score from ostracon at 10 points. The top 10 of 233 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in ostracon: two come from rearranging its letters, and ostracon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartoons. For points, the strongest plays are cartoons, corantos, and ostracon — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ostracon produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cartons, cartoon, and racoons. For points, the strongest plays are cantors, cartons, cartoon, consort, contras, coranto, coronas, cratons, crotons, and racoons — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ostracon turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, carton, racoon, and scrota. For points, the strongest plays are acorns, actors, cantor, cantos, carton, castor, contos, contra, corona, costar, cotans, craton, croons, croton, narcos, nostoc, octans, racons, racoon, scrota, and tarocs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, carts, coast, coats, corns, roast, and roots. For points, the strongest plays are acorn, acros, actor, ascon, ascot, canso, canst, canto, cants, carns, carts, coast, coats, conto, coons, coots, corns, costa, cotan, croon, narco, narcs, octan, orcas, oscar, racon, scant, scart, scoot, scorn, scran, tacos, taroc, tocos, and torcs — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ostracon produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, arts, cans, cars, cart, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are acro, acts, arco, arcs, cans, cant, carn, cars, cart, cast, cats, coat, cons, coon, coos, coot, corn, cors, cost, cots, narc, ocas, orca, orcs, rocs, scan, scar, scat, scot, soca, taco, toco, and torc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ostracon turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, art, can, car, cat, and con. For points, the strongest plays are act, arc, can, car, cat, con, coo, cor, cos, cot, oca, orc, roc, sac, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ostracon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are an, ar, as, at, na, no, on, or, os, so, ta, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in ostracon 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.
ostracon 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
ostracon is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ostracon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cartoons, corantos, and ostracon, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ostracon 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 ostracon produce 233 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.