Hidden inside racoon sit corona and racoon, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 37 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corona and racoon tie for the highest Scrabble score from racoon at 8 points. The top 10 of 37 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in racoon: one comes from rearranging its letters, and racoon itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with racoon. For points, the strongest plays are corona and racoon — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in racoon. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are acorn, croon, narco, and racon, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling racoon turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, car and con. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including can, car and con.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in racoon plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in racoon and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
racoon 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for racoon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
racoon is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing racoon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corona and racoon, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from racoon 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 racoon produce 37 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.