automaton needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
automaton is the highest-scoring word from automaton, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in automaton — and it is automaton itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in automaton produces 3 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 automan, automat, and ottoman, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling automaton turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amount, mutant, and tomato. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including amount, mutant and tomato.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in automaton. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mount. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including mount, atman and manat.
Rearranging the letters in automaton produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, aunt and auto. For points, 17 words tie at 6 points, including atom, moon and atma.
Unscrambling automaton turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, man and moo. For points, 16 words tie at 5 points, including man, moo and ama.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in automaton. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, um and ma.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in automaton plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in automaton 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.
automaton 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 two senses for automaton. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
automaton is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing automaton unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is automaton, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from automaton 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 automaton produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.