Hidden inside cations sit actions, atonics, and cations, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actions, atonics, and cations tie for the highest Scrabble score from cations at 9 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in cations: two come from rearranging its letters, and cations itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions. For points, the strongest plays are actions, atonics, and cations — 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 cations turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action and casino. For points, the strongest plays are actins, action, antics, atonic, cantos, casino, cation, coatis, cotans, nastic, octans, scotia, tocsin, and tonics — 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats, coins, saint, stain, and tacos. For points, the strongest plays are actin, antic, ascon, ascot, cains, canso, canst, canto, cants, cions, coast, coati, coats, coins, costa, cotan, icons, octan, ontic, scant, scion, sonic, stoic, tacos, and tonic — 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 cations produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, cans, cast, cats, coat, and coin. For points, the strongest plays are acts, asci, cain, cans, cant, cast, cats, ciao, cion, cist, coat, coin, coni, cons, cost, cots, icon, ocas, otic, scan, scat, scot, soca, taco, and tics — 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 cations turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, its, and not. For points, the strongest plays are act, can, cat, cis, con, cos, cot, 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cations. 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, oi, on, os, si, so, ta, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
26 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in cations plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cations and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
cations 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for cations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
cations is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actions, atonics, and cations, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cations 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 cations produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.