construction needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 440 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
construction is the highest-scoring word from construction, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 440 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in construction — and it is construction itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling construction turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are constrict and construct, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in construction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coconuts and unicorns. For points, the strongest plays are coconuts and concours — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in construction produces 44 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coconut, cottons, tourist, and unicorn. For points, the strongest plays are coconut, concurs, sirocco, and tictocs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling construction turns up 70 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with circus, coitus and cotton. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including circus, occurs and concur.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in construction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, corns and count. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including occur, circs and cisco.
Rearranging the letters in construction produces 112 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and corn. For points, the strongest plays are coco and croc — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling construction turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut and its. For points, 14 words tie at 5 points, including con, cut and cis.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in construction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 16 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
1 thirteen-letter word can be made using all the letters in construction plus one additional letter.
construction 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 seven senses for construction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
construction is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing construction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is construction, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from construction 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 construction produce 440 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 44 seven-letter words, 70 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 112 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.