bullions needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 109 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
bullions is the highest-scoring word from bullions, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 109 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in bullions — and it is bullions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in bullions 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 words are billons and bullion, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bullions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bills, boils and bonus. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including bills, boils and bonus.
Rearranging the letters in bullions produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bill, boil and bull. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including bill, boil and bull.
Unscrambling bullions turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bun, bus and ill. For points, 15 words tie at 5 points, including bun, bus and sub.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in bullions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, the strongest plays are bi and bo — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in bullions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in bullions 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.
bullions 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 5-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 bullions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
bullions is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing bullions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is bullions, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from bullions 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 bullions produce 109 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.