convulsion 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, 169 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
convulsion is the highest-scoring word from convulsion, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 169 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in convulsion — and it is convulsion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in convulsion produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ovonics, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling convulsion turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colons, cousin, onions, and unions. For points, the strongest plays are convos, covins, and ovonic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convulsion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, colon and cools. For points, the strongest plays are convo and covin — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in convulsion produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons and cool. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including luvs, vino and vins.
Unscrambling convulsion turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, nun and oil. For points, the strongest plays are luv, vin, and vis — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in convulsion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, 13 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and no.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in convulsion plus one additional letter.
convulsion 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 four senses for convulsion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
convulsion is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing convulsion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is convulsion, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from convulsion 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 convulsion produce 169 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.