convection needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
convection is the highest-scoring word from convection, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in convection — and it is convection itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convection. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: convince, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in convection produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with connect and convict. For points, the strongest plays are convect and convict — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling convection turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with invent and notice. For points, the strongest plays are covine, novice, and ovonic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with onion and voice. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including voice, civet and convo.
Rearranging the letters in convection produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin and cone. For points, the strongest plays are cove and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling convection turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and net. For points, the strongest plays are vet, vie, vin, and voe — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and no. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including in, it and no.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in convection plus one additional letter.
convection 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 two senses for convection. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
convection is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing convection unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is convection, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from convection 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 convection produce 133 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.