Hidden inside sortcon sit consort and crotons, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
SORTCON isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to CONSORT and CROTONS.
consort and crotons tie for the highest Scrabble score from sortcon at 9 points. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in sortcon produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are consort and crotons, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sortcon turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are contos, croons, croton, and nostoc, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sortcon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corns and roots. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including corns, conto and coons.
Rearranging the letters in sortcon produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cons, corn and cost. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including cons, corn and cost.
Unscrambling sortcon turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nor and not. For points, 8 words tie at 5 points, including con, coo and cor.
13 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in sortcon plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sortcon and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are consort and crotons, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sortcon 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 sortcon produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.