conventional needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 551 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conventional is the highest-scoring word from conventional, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 551 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in conventional — and it is conventional itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in conventional produces 2 valid ten-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: convention, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling conventional turns up 10 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are connivent, evocation, nonactive, and novocaine, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conventional. If a familiar word is all you need, start with innocent and location. For points, 9 words tie at 13 points, including coinvent, conative and covalent.
Rearranging the letters in conventional produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancient, contain and violate. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including volcano, centavo and connive.
Unscrambling conventional turns up 97 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, active and cannot. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including active, alcove and avocet.
There are 125 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conventional. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alien, alive and alone. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including voice, calve and cavie.
Rearranging the letters in conventional produces 157 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cave, cent and coat. For points, the strongest plays are cave, cove, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling conventional turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ate. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conventional. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, 23 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and in.
conventional 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 6-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 conventional. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
conventional is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing conventional unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is conventional, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from conventional 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 conventional produce 551 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 10 nine-letter words, 23 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 97 six-letter words, 125 five-letter words, 157 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.