comparison 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, 587 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comparison is the highest-scoring word from comparison, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 587 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in comparison — and it is comparison itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling comparison turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crampoons and monocarps, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comparison. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are campions, corpsman, crampons and 2 more, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in comparison produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with racoons. For points, the strongest plays are campion and crampon — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling comparison turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casino, morons and panics. For points, 7 words tie at 12 points, including campos, compas and compos.
There are 163 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comparison. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camps, coins and comas. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including camps, campi and campo.
Rearranging the letters in comparison produces 175 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and arms. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling comparison turns up 103 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and arm. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and map.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comparison. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in comparison plus one additional letter.
comparison 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 4-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 comparison. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
comparison is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing comparison unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is comparison, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from comparison 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 comparison produce 587 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 163 five-letter words, 175 four-letter words, 103 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.