Hidden inside auction sit auction and caution, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
auction and caution tie for the highest Scrabble score from auction at 9 points. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in auction: one comes from rearranging its letters, and auction itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auction. For points, the strongest plays are auction and caution — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling auction turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action. For points, the strongest plays are action, atonic, cation, toucan, and tunica — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in auction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count. For points, the strongest plays are actin, antic, canto, coati, cotan, count, cunit, cutin, octan, ontic, tonic, tunic, uncia, and unica — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in auction produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, coat, coin, into, taco, and tuna. For points, the strongest plays are cain, cant, ciao, cion, coat, coin, coni, icon, otic, taco, unci, and unco — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling auction turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, cut, and not. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, con, cot, cut, oca, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in auction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ai, an, at, in, it, na, no, nu, oi, on, ta, ti, to, un, and ut — each worth 2 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 auction and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
auction 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 auction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
auction is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing auction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are auction and caution, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from auction 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 auction produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.