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41 words come out when you unscramble CORTEX, starting with CORTEX itself: 15 in Scrabble, 16 in Words With Friends. The 6 letters split into 2 vowels and 4 consonants.

Looking for excrot, cretox, excort, exctor, torecx, crotex, roxtec, trocex, cotrex or croxet? They use the same letters as CORTEX, so the words on this page are their answers too.

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Per tile: Scrabble value, Words With Friends in blue where different.

Possible Words From cortex

Words from CORTEX by length: 1 with 6 letters, 3 with 5, 8 with 4, 20 with 3 and 9 with 2.

6 Letter Words You Can Make with cortex

5 Letter Words You Can Make with cortex

OXTER and RETOX share the top score of 12 among the 5-letter words made with CORTEX letters.

4 Letter Words You Can Make with cortex

Among the 4-letter words in CORTEX, OXER leads with 11 points, then CERO and CERT on 6. CORE, COTE and TORE are the familiar ones.

3 Letter Words You Can Make with cortex

COX scores highest among the 3-letter words from CORTEX at 12 points, ahead of EXO and REX on 10. TOE, ORE and ROT are the ones most people know.

2 Letter Words You Can Make with cortex

Among the 2-letter words you get when you unscramble CORTEX, EX and OX tie for first at 9 points. OR is an everyday pick.

Neighbor Words of CORTEX

Keep every letter of CORTEX but one, change that one, and you get:

More 6-letter words: starting with CO · ending in X · all 6-letter words

What the Best CORTEX Words Mean

CORTEX first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.

Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends

CORTEX 15 · 16
the outer layer of an organ
COX 12 · 13
to coxswain
OXTER 12 · 12
the armpit
OXER 11 · 11
a fence for keeping in cattle
REX 10 · 10
a king
EX 9 · 9
to cross out
OX 9 · 9
a clumsy person
RECTO 7 · 8
a right-hand page of a book

CORTEX in Scrabble and Words With Friends: Can You Play It?

Yes. CORTEX is playable in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it is in the list Words With Friends is built on.

GameScrabble USScrabble UKWords With Friends*
CORTEX itselfYesYesYes
Answers accepted (of 41)364131

* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.

Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: RETOX, EXO, TEX, TOC and REO, 5 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: OXER, CERT, ECO, TEC and TE, 5 in all.

Longer Words Built on CORTEX

With one more tile, the letters of CORTEX spell the words below.

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