Hidden inside attritions sit attritions and titrations, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 297 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attritions and titrations tie for the highest Scrabble score from attritions at 10 points. The top 10 of 297 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in attritions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and attritions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attritions and titrations, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling attritions turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attrition, striation, and titration, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attritions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antiriot, introits, ostinati and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in attritions produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with station. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including station, aroints and attorns.
Unscrambling attritions turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with artist, raisin, and trains. For points, 42 words tie at 6 points, including artist, raisin and trains.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attritions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, rains and riots. For points, 75 words tie at 5 points, including irons, rains and riots.
Rearranging the letters in attritions produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and arts. For points, 86 words tie at 4 points, including airs, ants and arts.
Unscrambling attritions turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 50 words tie at 3 points, including air, ant and art.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attritions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 19 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
attritions 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 attritions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
attritions is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attritions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are attritions and titrations, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from attritions 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 attritions produce 297 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.