Hidden inside attrition sit attrition and titration, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attrition and titration tie for the highest Scrabble score from attrition at 9 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in attrition: one comes from rearranging its letters, and attrition itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attrition and titration, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling attrition produces exactly one eight-letter word: antiriot. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in attrition 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 introit and titrant, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling attrition 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 aroint, attorn, attrit and 6 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attrition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with train. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including train, intro and natto.
Rearranging the letters in attrition produces 36 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron and rain. For points, 36 words tie at 4 points, including into, iron and rain.
Unscrambling attrition turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 31 words tie at 3 points, including air, ant and art.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attrition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, 14 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and in.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in attrition plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in attrition 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.
attrition 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 five senses for attrition. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
attrition is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attrition unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attrition and titration, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from attrition 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 attrition produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 36 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.