Hidden inside corpses sit corpses and process, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
corpses and process tie for the highest Scrabble score from corpses at 11 points. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in corpses: one comes from rearranging its letters, and corpses itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: corpses and process, worth 11 points apiece in Scrabble.
Unscrambling corpses turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corpse and scores. For points, the strongest plays are copers, copses, corpse, and scopes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in corpses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cores, cross and poses. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including coper, copes and copse.
Rearranging the letters in corpses produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cops, core and pose. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including cops, ceps and cope.
Unscrambling corpses turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, per, pro, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, and pec — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in corpses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with or and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in corpses plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in corpses 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.
corpses 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 corpses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
corpses is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing corpses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are corpses and process, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from corpses 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 corpses produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.