Hidden inside cession sit cession, cosines, and oscines, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 100 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cession, cosines, and oscines tie for the highest Scrabble score from cession at 9 points. The top 10 of 100 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in cession: two come from rearranging its letters, and cession itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cession, cosines, and oscines, 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 cession turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noises. For points, the strongest plays are conies, cosies, cosine, icones, oscine, scions, scones, and sonics — 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 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cession. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones, noise, noses, and since. For points, the strongest plays are cines, cions, coins, cones, coses, cosie, icons, scion, scone, sices, since, soces, and sonic — 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 cession produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone, cons, ices, nice, nose, and once. For points, the strongest plays are cess, cine, cion, coin, cone, coni, cons, coss, ecos, ices, icon, nice, once, secs, sice, and sics — 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 cession turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, one, sin, and son. For points, the strongest plays are cis, con, cos, eco, ice, sec, sic, and soc — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cession. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, in, is, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, si, and so — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in cession 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.
cession 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 cession. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
cession is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cession unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cession, cosines, and oscines, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from cession 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 cession produce 100 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.