Hidden inside record sit corder and record, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 44 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corder and record tie for the highest Scrabble score from record at 9 points. The top 10 of 44 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in record: one comes from rearranging its letters, and record itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with record. For points, the strongest plays are corder and record — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in record. If a familiar word is all you need, start with order. For points, the strongest plays are coder, cored, credo, and decor — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in record produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord, core, and rode. For points, the strongest plays are code, coed, cord, cred, and deco — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling record turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with red and rod. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in record. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 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 record 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.
record 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record twelve senses for record. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
record is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing record unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corder and record, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from record 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 record produce 44 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.