Hidden inside cessation sit canoeists, cessation, and sonicates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 490 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
canoeists, cessation, and sonicates tie for the highest Scrabble score from cessation at 11 points. The top 10 of 490 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in cessation: two come from rearranging its letters, and cessation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canoeists, cessation, and sonicates, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cessation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sections. For points, the strongest plays are aconites, canoeist, cineasts, contessa, scanties, sections, and sonicate — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in cessation produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, casinos, notices, and section. For points, the strongest plays are acetins, acinose, aconite, actions, ascents, ascites, atonics, caisson, caseins, casinos, cassine, cassino, cations, cession, cineast, consist, cosiest, cosines, ectasis, incases, incests, insects, notices, octanes, oscines, scotias, secants, section, stances, and tocsins — 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 cessation turns up 91 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, casino, coasts, nicest, noises, notice, and oceans. For points, the strongest plays are acetin, actins, action, aeonic, antics, ascent, ascons, ascots, atonic, canoes, cansos, cantos, casein, casino, castes, cation, centai, centas, centos, cestas, cestoi, cestos, coasts, coatis, conies, contes, cosets, cosies, cosine, cosset, costae, cotans, enacts, enatic, escots, icones, incase, incest, insect, nastic, nicest, noetic, notice, oceans, octane, octans, oscine, saices, scants, scenas, scents, scions, scones, scotia, secant, sonics, stance, stoics, 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 131 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cessation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cases, casts, cents, coast, coats, coins, and cones. For points, the strongest plays are acnes, actin, antic, ascon, ascot, cains, canes, canoe, canso, canst, canto, cants, cases, caste, casts, cates, cento, cents, cesta, cesti, cines, cions, cists, cites, coast, coati, coats, coins, cones, conte, coses, coset, cosie, costa, costs, cotan, cotes, enact, escot, etics, icons, ocean, octan, oncet, ontic, saice, scans, scant, scats, scena, scent, scion, scone, scots, sects, sices, since, socas, soces, sonic, stoic, taces, 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 cessation produces 125 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, cans, case, cast, cats, and cent. For points, the strongest plays are aces, acne, acts, asci, cain, cane, cans, cant, case, cast, cate, cats, cent, cess, ciao, cine, cion, cist, cite, coat, coin, cone, coni, cons, coss, cost, cote, cots, ecos, etic, ices, icon, nice, ocas, once, otic, sacs, scan, scat, scot, secs, sect, sice, sics, soca, tace, taco, tecs, 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 cessation turns up 70 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ass, ate, can, cat, and con. For points, the strongest plays are ace, act, can, cat, cis, con, cos, cot, eco, ice, oca, sac, sec, sic, soc, tec, 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cessation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, as, at, en, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, so, ta, te, 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.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in cessation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in cessation 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.
cessation 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 cessation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
cessation is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cessation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are canoeists, cessation, and sonicates, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cessation 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 cessation produce 490 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 91 six-letter words, 131 five-letter words, 125 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.