actuation needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actuation is the highest-scoring word from actuation, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in actuation — and it is actuation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in actuation produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auction. For points, the strongest plays are auction, caution, and taction — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling actuation turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action. For points, the strongest plays are action, atonic, cation, intact, octant, outact, toucan, and tunica — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in actuation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attic and count. For points, the strongest plays are actin, antic, attic, canto, coati, cotan, cotta, count, cunit, cutin, octan, ontic, tacan, tacit, tinct, tonic, tunic, uncia, and unica — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in actuation produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, coat, coin, into, taco, and tuna. For points, the strongest plays are acai, acta, cain, cant, ciao, cion, coat, coin, coni, icon, otic, taco, tact, unci, and unco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling actuation turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, cut, and not. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, con, cot, cut, oca, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in actuation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ai, an, at, in, it, na, no, nu, oi, on, ta, ti, to, un, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in actuation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in actuation and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
actuation 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 one sense for actuation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
actuation is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing actuation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is actuation, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from actuation 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 actuation produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.