Hidden inside absorption sit absorption and probations, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 654 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
absorption and probations tie for the highest Scrabble score from absorption at 14 points. The top 10 of 654 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in absorption: one comes from rearranging its letters, and absorption itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are absorption and probations, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling absorption turns up 2 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abortions. For points, the strongest play is probation — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in absorption. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abortion. For points, the strongest plays are abortion, atropins, biotrons, boniatos, boronias, patroons, portions, positron, sorbitan, sorption, and taborins — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in absorption produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with options. For points, the strongest play is probits — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling absorption turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aborts, brains, option, paints, pianos, points, and poison. For points, the strongest play is probit — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 178 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in absorption. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abort, baits, barns, boats, boots, brain, and brats. For points, the strongest play is probs — 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 absorption produces 201 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, bait, bans, barn, and bars. For points, the strongest plays are baps, bops, and prob — 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 absorption turns up 113 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, ban, bar, bat, and bit. For points, the strongest plays are bap and bop — 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 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in absorption. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, bo, op, pa, pi, and po — each worth 4 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 absorption plus one additional letter.
absorption 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for absorption. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
absorption is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing absorption unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are absorption and probations, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from absorption 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 absorption produce 654 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 178 five-letter words, 201 four-letter words, 113 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.