Hidden inside coalition sit coalition and coitional, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 170 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
coalition and coitional tie for the highest Scrabble score from coalition at 11 points. The top 10 of 170 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in coalition: one comes from rearranging its letters, and coalition 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 coalition and coitional, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling coalition produces exactly one eight-letter word: location. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in coalition produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are altcoin, coition, coolant, octanol, and oolitic, 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 coalition turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action and lotion. For points, the strongest plays are action, alnico, atonic, cation, catlin, citola, coital, coloni, coltan, italic, oilcan, and tincal — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coalition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colon. For points, the strongest plays are acini, actin, antic, canto, cilia, cloot, coati, colin, colon, conto, cotan, iliac, ionic, licit, linac, lotic, nicol, octal, octan, ontic, tical, 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 coalition produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coat, coin, cola, cool, into, lion, and loan. For points, the strongest plays are cain, calo, cant, ciao, cion, clan, clit, clon, clot, coal, coat, coil, coin, cola, colt, coni, cool, coon, coot, icon, laic, loca, loci, loco, otic, taco, talc, and toco — 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 coalition turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, lit, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are act, cal, can, cat, col, con, coo, cot, lac, loc, oca, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in coalition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ai, al, an, at, in, it, la, li, lo, na, no, oi, on, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in coalition plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in coalition 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.
coalition 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 three senses for coalition. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
coalition is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing coalition unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are coalition and coitional, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from coalition 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 coalition produce 170 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.