Unscramble ORTHODOX and you have 52 words, ORTHODOX itself among them: it scores 19 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. HOX is the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. The 8 letters split into 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
Looking for thorodox, hoodroxt, hotrodox, rooxthod, hooxtord, roothodx, doorhotx or thoodrox? They use the same letters as ORTHODOX, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
By length, the words from ORTHODOX split into 1 with 8 letters, 1 with 6, 3 with 5, 15 with 4, 24 with 3 and 8 with 2. None has 7 letters.
There is a single one of the 6-letter words in ORTHODOX: HOTROD, 10 points.
Keep every letter of ORTHODOX but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with OR · ending in OX · all 8-letter words
ORTHODOX first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept ORTHODOX, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| ORTHODOX itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 52) | 43 | 52 | 39 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: HOX, HOORD, HOOR, TOHO, DORT, DOO, ORD, OOR and OO, 9 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DOX, DOH, HOO and ROO, 4 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of ORTHODOX spell the words below.