attentions needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 317 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attentions is the highest-scoring word from attentions, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 317 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in attentions — and it is attentions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling attentions turns up 2 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attention. For points, the strongest plays are attention and intonates — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attentions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are enations, intonate, nattiest and 4 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in attentions produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nations, station, and tension. For points, 24 words tie at 7 points, including nations, station and tension.
Unscrambling attentions turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insane, nation, and tennis. For points, 42 words tie at 6 points, including insane, nation and tennis.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attentions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nines, noise and notes. For points, 73 words tie at 5 points, including nines, noise and notes.
Rearranging the letters in attentions produces 88 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ants, east and eats. For points, 88 words tie at 4 points, including ants, east and eats.
Unscrambling attentions turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ate and eat. For points, 56 words tie at 3 points, including ant, ate and eat.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attentions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 24 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in attentions plus one additional letter.
attentions 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 attentions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
attentions is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attentions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is attentions, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from attentions 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 attentions produce 317 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 88 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.