attention 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, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attention is the highest-scoring word from attention, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in attention — and it is attention itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling attention produces exactly one eight-letter word: intonate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in attention produces 2 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 enation and tontine, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling attention turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nation. For points, the strongest plays are anoint, attent, eonian, innate, intent, intone, nation, notate, tattie, and tenant — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attention. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anent, anion, atone, entia, inane, natto, niton, nonet, oaten, taint, tanto, tenia, tenno, tenon, tinea, titan, and tonne, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in attention produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, neat, nine, none, note, tent, and tone. For points, the strongest plays are aeon, anon, ante, anti, etna, into, iota, nano, naoi, neat, neon, nett, nine, nite, nona, none, noni, nota, note, tain, tate, teat, tein, tent, tian, tine, tint, toea, toit, tone, and tote — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling attention turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate, eat, net, not, one, and tan. For points, the strongest plays are ain, ait, ane, ani, ant, ate, att, eat, eon, eta, inn, ion, nae, nan, net, nit, not, oat, one, tae, tan, tao, tat, tea, ten, tet, tie, tin, tit, toe, ton, and tot — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, at, en, et, in, it, na, ne, no, oe, oi, on, ta, te, ti, and to — 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 attention plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in attention 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.
attention 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 2-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 attention. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
attention is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attention unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is attention, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from attention 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 attention produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.