correction needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
correction is the highest-scoring word from correction, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in correction — and it is correction itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling correction produces exactly one nine-letter word: incorrect. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in correction. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coercion, concerti, concerto and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in correction produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with concert and correct. For points, 9 words tie at 11 points, including concert, correct and centric.
Unscrambling correction turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with corner, erotic, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are cicero and cretic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in correction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer. For points, the strongest plays are cerci, ceric, conic, and croci — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in correction produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin and cone. For points, the strongest plays are coco and croc — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling correction turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and net. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including con, ice and coo.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in correction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and no. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including in, it and no.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in correction plus one additional letter.
correction 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 3-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 correction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
correction is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing correction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is correction, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from correction 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 correction produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.