confession needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 193 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
confession is the highest-scoring word from confession, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 193 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in confession — and it is confession itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confession. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is confines, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confession produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with confess. For points, the strongest plays are confess and confine — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling confession turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noises and onions. For points, the strongest play is ficoes — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confession. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, cones and nines. For points, the strongest plays are coifs, coofs, fices, and fiscs — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in confession produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cone and cons. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including foci, coif and coof.
Unscrambling confession turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and one. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including efs, fen and fes.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in confession. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in confession plus one additional letter.
confession 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 five senses for confession. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
confession is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing confession unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is confession, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from confession 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 confession produce 193 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.