cessations needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 525 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cessations is the highest-scoring word from cessations, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 525 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in cessations — and it is cessations itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cessations turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canoeists, cessation, contessas, 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 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cessations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sections. For points, the strongest plays are aconites, caissons, canoeist, cassines, cassinos, cessions, cineasts, coassist, consists, contessa, cosiness, 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 cessations produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, casinos, notices, seasons, section, and session. For points, the strongest plays are acetins, acinose, aconite, actions, ascents, ascesis, ascites, atonics, caisson, caseins, casinos, cassine, cassino, cations, cession, cineast, consist, cosiest, cosines, cossets, 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 cessations turns up 100 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, assist, casino, coasts, nicest, noises, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are acetin, actins, action, aeonic, antics, ascent, ascons, ascots, atonic, canoes, cansos, cantos, casein, casino, cassis, 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 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cessations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with asses, cases, casts, cents, coast, coats, and coins. 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 cessations produces 126 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 cessations 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 cessations. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in cessations plus one additional letter.
cessations 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 cessations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
cessations is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cessations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cessations, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cessations 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 cessations produce 525 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 100 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 70 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.