conviction 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, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conviction is the highest-scoring word from conviction, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in conviction — and it is conviction itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in conviction produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: convict, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conviction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with onion. For points, the strongest play is civic — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in conviction produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, into, noon, and onto. For points, the strongest play is coco — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling conviction turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, not and tin. For points, the strongest play is vin — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in conviction plus one additional letter.
conviction 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 conviction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
conviction is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing conviction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is conviction, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from conviction 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 conviction produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.