battalion 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, 166 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
battalion is the highest-scoring word from battalion, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 166 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in battalion — and it is battalion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling battalion produces exactly one eight-letter word: ablation. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in battalion produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is blatant, 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 battalion turns up 12 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are albino, bonita, obtain, and talbot, 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 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in battalion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with total. For points, the strongest plays are aboil, balti, banal, baton, binal, biont, biota, blain, bloat, labia, and tabla — 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 battalion produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bail, bait, boat, boil, into, lion, and loan. For points, the strongest plays are alba, baal, bail, bait, bani, batt, bint, bitt, blat, blin, blot, boat, boil, bola, bolt, bota, bott, obia, and obit — 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 battalion turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, ban, bat, bit, lab, lit, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are aba, alb, baa, bal, ban, bat, bin, bio, bit, boa, bot, lab, lib, lob, nab, nib, nob, oba, obi, and tab — 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 battalion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in battalion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in battalion 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.
battalion 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 battalion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
battalion is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing battalion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is battalion, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from battalion 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 battalion produce 166 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.