allusions needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allusions is the highest-scoring word from allusions, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in allusions — and it is allusions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allusions produces exactly one eight-letter word: allusion. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in allusions produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are insouls, sanious, and suasion, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allusions turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aloins, assoil, insoul and 6 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allusions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lions, loans and nails. For points, 41 words tie at 5 points, including lions, loans and nails.
Rearranging the letters in allusions produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, anus and lion. For points, 55 words tie at 4 points, including also, anus and lion.
Unscrambling allusions turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ass and ill. For points, 32 words tie at 3 points, including all, ass and ill.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allusions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and in. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and in.
Swap a single tile in allusions 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.
allusions 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 4-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 allusions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
allusions is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allusions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is allusions, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from allusions 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 allusions produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.