companions needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 333 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
companions is the highest-scoring word from companions, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 333 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in companions — and it is companions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling companions produces exactly one nine-letter word: companion. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling companions produces exactly one eight-letter word: campions. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in companions produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mansion. For points, the strongest play is campion — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling companions turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casino, onions and panics. For points, the strongest plays are campos, compas, compos, and scampi — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 77 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in companions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camps, coins and comas. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including camps, campi and campo.
Rearranging the letters in companions produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, main and maps. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling companions turns up 74 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in companions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
companions 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 companions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
companions is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing companions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is companions, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from companions 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 companions produce 333 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 15 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 77 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.