automation needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 176 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
automation is the highest-scoring word from automation, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 176 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in automation — and it is automation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling automation produces exactly one nine-letter word: automaton. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in automation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are antiatom and mutation, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in automation produces 7 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 amotion, animato, automan and 4 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling automation turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amount, motion, mutant, and tomato. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including amount, motion and mutant.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in automation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mount. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including mount, amain and amino.
Rearranging the letters in automation produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, aunt and auto. For points, 26 words tie at 6 points, including atom, main and mint.
Unscrambling automation turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and man. For points, 20 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and moo.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in automation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and ma.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in automation plus one additional letter.
automation 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 automation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
automation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing automation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is automation, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from automation 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 automation produce 176 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.