companion needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
companion is the highest-scoring word from companion, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in companion — and it is companion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling companion produces exactly one seven-letter word: campion. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling companion turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are anomic, camion, manioc and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in companion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with onion, panic, and piano. For points, the strongest plays are campi, campo, and compo — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in companion produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camp, coin and coma. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling companion turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, can and cap. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and map.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in companion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and in. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in companion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in companion 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.
companion 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for companion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
companion is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing companion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is companion, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from companion 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 companion produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.