addition needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 75 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
addition is the highest-scoring word from addition, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 75 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in addition — and it is addition itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in addition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with idiot. For points, the strongest play is iodid — 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 addition produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into and toad. For points, the strongest plays are dado and dido — 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 addition turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, aid, and, ant, dad, did, and dot. For points, the strongest plays are add, dad, did, and odd — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in addition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, do, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, do, 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.
Swap a single tile in addition and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
addition 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 six senses for addition. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
addition is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing addition unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is addition, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from addition 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 addition produce 75 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.