ordinaries needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 537 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ordinaries is the highest-scoring word from ordinaries, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 537 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in ordinaries — and it is ordinaries itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ordinaries turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ordainers, reordains, and serranoid, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordinaries. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are adorners, aneroids, anodiser, derision, drainers, indorser, ironised, ironside, ordainer, readorns, reordain, resinoid, and serranid, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ordinaries produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dairies, diaries, errands, and ironies. For points, the strongest plays are adorers, adorner, airside, aneroid, anodise, dairies, darners, denarii, diaries, dineros, donairs, drainer, droners, drosera, errands, indorse, inroads, insider, iodines, ionised, ordains, ordines, radioes, raiders, randier, randies, readorn, roadies, rosined, sadiron, sandier, sardine, sordine, and sordini — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ordinaries turns up 99 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adores, diners, drains, errand, inside, orders, and radios. For points, the strongest plays are adonis, adorer, adores, adorns, aiders, andros, anodes, ardors, arider, aroids, danios, darers, darner, deairs, denari, denars, derris, dinars, dinero, diners, donair, donsie, dories, dorser, drains, drears, driers, droner, drones, errand, indies, indris, inroad, inside, iodine, iodins, iodise, irades, irides, irised, ironed, nadirs, noised, onside, ordain, orders, oreads, radios, radons, raider, rained, raised, randos, ranids, redans, redias, redons, resaid, riders, rinsed, roadie, roared, rondes, sained, sander, sarode, sirdar, snared, snider, snored, soared, sonder, and sorned — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 137 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordinaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, aired, aside, dares, dears, diner, and dines. For points, the strongest plays are adios, adore, adorn, aider, aides, aired, andro, anode, ardor, aroid, aside, danio, darer, dares, darns, deair, deans, dears, denar, dinar, diner, dines, dinos, direr, doers, donas, dores, dorrs, dorsa, dosai, doser, drain, drear, drier, dries, drone, eidos, ideas, indie, indri, iodin, irade, irids, nadir, nards, nerds, nides, nodes, nosed, oared, oidia, order, oread, radii, radio, radon, raids, rando, rands, ranid, rared, rased, reads, redan, redia, redon, redos, rends, resid, resod, rider, rides, rinds, roads, rodes, roids, ronde, rosed, saned, sarod, sedan, sired, snide, sonde, and sored — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ordinaries produces 137 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, near, nerd, nose, ones, and rain. For points, the strongest plays are ados, aide, aids, ands, arid, nard, nerd, nide, nidi, node, nodi, nods, odas, odea, odes, orad, rads, raid, rand, read, redo, reds, rend, ride, rids, rind, road, rode, rods, roid, sade, sadi, said, sand, sard, send, side, sned, soda, sord, dais, dans, dare, darn, dean, dear, deni, dens, desi, dies, dine, dino, dins, dire, doer, does, dona, done, dons, dore, dorr, dors, dosa, dose, ends, idea, ides, ired, and irid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ordinaries turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, are, die, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, aid, and, dan, das, den, die, din, dis, doe, don, dor, dos, eds, end, ids, nod, oda, ode, ods, rad, red, rid, rod, sad, and sod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ordinaries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, do, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, id, 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in ordinaries plus one additional letter.
ordinaries 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 seven senses for ordinaries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
ordinaries is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ordinaries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ordinaries, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ordinaries 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 ordinaries produce 537 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 99 six-letter words, 137 five-letter words, 137 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.