Hidden inside auctions sit auctions and cautions, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
auctions and cautions tie for the highest Scrabble score from auctions at 10 points. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in auctions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and auctions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auctions. For points, the strongest plays are auctions and cautions — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in auctions produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions and auction. For points, the strongest plays are acinous, actions, atonics, auction, cations, caution, conatus, suction, and toucans — 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 auctions turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, casino, coitus, counts, and cousin. For points, the strongest plays are acinus, actins, action, antics, atonic, cantos, cantus, casino, cation, coatis, coitus, cotans, counts, cousin, cunits, cutins, nastic, octans, scotia, tocsin, tonics, toucan, tunica, tunics, and uncast — 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 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in auctions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos, coast, coats, coins, count, and saint. For points, the strongest plays are actin, antic, ascon, ascot, cains, canso, canst, canto, cants, cions, coast, coati, coats, coins, conus, costa, cotan, count, cunit, cutin, cutis, icons, ictus, incus, octan, ontic, scant, scion, scout, scuta, sonic, stoic, tacos, tonic, tunic, uncia, uncos, 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 auctions produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, anus, aunt, auto, cans, and cast. For points, the strongest plays are acts, asci, cain, cans, cant, cast, cats, ciao, cion, cist, coat, coin, coni, cons, cost, cots, cuts, icon, ocas, otic, scan, scat, scot, scut, soca, taco, tics, 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 auctions turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, cut, and its. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, cis, con, cos, cot, cut, oca, sac, sic, soc, 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in auctions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ai, an, as, at, in, is, it, na, no, nu, oi, on, os, si, so, ta, ti, to, un, us, 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 auctions and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
auctions 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 auctions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
auctions is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing auctions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are auctions and cautions, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from auctions 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 auctions produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.