cannon needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cannon is the highest-scoring word from cannon, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in cannon — and it is cannon itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cannon. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ancon and canon, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in cannon plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cannon 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.
cannon 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eight senses for cannon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
cannon is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cannon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cannon, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cannon 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 cannon produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 4 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.