ambitions needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 294 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ambitions is the highest-scoring word from ambitions, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 294 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ambitions — and it is ambitions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling ambitions produces exactly one eight-letter word: ambition. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ambitions produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is intombs, 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 ambitions turns up 27 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ambits, intomb, and obiism, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 62 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ambitions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atoms, baits, boats, mints, moist, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are ambit, ambos, bimas, iambi, iambs, nimbi, sambo, and tombs — each 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 ambitions produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, ants, atom, bait, bans, bats, and bits. For points, the strongest plays are ambo, bams, bima, iamb, mibs, mobs, and tomb — 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 ambitions turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant, bam, ban, bat, bit, and its. For points, the strongest plays are bam, mib, and mob — 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ambitions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ab, am, ba, bi, bo, ma, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 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 ambitions 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.
ambitions 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 three senses for ambitions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
ambitions is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ambitions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ambitions, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ambitions 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 ambitions produce 294 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 62 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.