causation 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, 269 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
causation is the highest-scoring word from causation, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 269 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in causation — and it is causation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in causation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auctions. For points, the strongest plays are auctions and cautions — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in causation produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions and auction. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including actions, auction and acinous.
Unscrambling causation turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, casino and coitus. For points, 28 words tie at 8 points, including action, casino and coitus.
There are 63 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in causation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos and coast. For points, 40 words tie at 7 points, including coast, coats and coins.
Rearranging the letters in causation produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and anus. For points, 32 words tie at 6 points, including acts, cans and cast.
Unscrambling causation turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and can. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and cat.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in causation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 22 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in causation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in causation 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.
causation 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 one sense for causation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
causation is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing causation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is causation, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from causation 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 causation produce 269 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 63 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.