compression needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 808 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
compression is the highest-scoring word from compression, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 808 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in compression — and it is compression itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in compression produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are procession and spoonerism, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling compression turns up 11 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are composers and comprises, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compression. If a familiar word is all you need, start with princess and promises. For points, the strongest plays are composer, composes, compress, comprise, and corpsmen — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in compression produces 86 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copiers, corpses, impress, incomes, persons, poisons, and princes. For points, the strongest plays are compone, compose, meropic, scrimps, and spermic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling compression turns up 167 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier, copies, corpse, crimes, crises, income, and morons. For points, the strongest plays are compos, crimps, and scrimp — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 204 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compression. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer, noise, noses, opens, penis, poems, and porns. For points, the strongest plays are compo, comps, and crimp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in compression produces 179 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, mice, mine, miss, moon, moos, and mops. For points, the strongest play is comp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling compression turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop, ice, men, moo, mop, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, imp, mic, moc, mop, pec, pic, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compression. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, me, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, om, op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in compression plus one additional letter.
compression 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 four senses for compression. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
compression is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing compression unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is compression, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from compression 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 compression produce 808 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 11 nine-letter words, 42 eight-letter words, 86 seven-letter words, 167 six-letter words, 204 five-letter words, 179 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.