Hidden inside creations sit actioners, anoretics, creations and 2 others, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 902 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actioners, anoretics, creations and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from creations at 11 points. The top 10 of 902 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 nine-letter words hiding in creations: four come from rearranging its letters, and creations itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reactions. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including reactions, actioners and anoretics.
There are 26 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in creations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancestor, reaction, and scenario. For points, 23 words tie at 10 points, including ancestor, reaction and scenario.
Rearranging the letters in creations produces 83 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, cartons and certain. For points, 62 words tie at 9 points, including actions, cartons and certain.
Unscrambling creations turns up 186 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, actors and carton. For points, 116 words tie at 8 points, including action, actors and carton.
There are 256 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in creations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nicer, noise and notes. For points, 116 words tie at 7 points, including nicer, ocean and races.
Rearranging the letters in creations produces 214 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs and ants. For points, 71 words tie at 6 points, including acts, nice and once.
Unscrambling creations turns up 104 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and car.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in creations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 28 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
20 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in creations plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in creations and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
creations 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for creations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
creations is one of five nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing creations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actioners, anoretics, creations, narcotise, and reactions, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from creations 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 creations produce 902 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 nine-letter words, 26 eight-letter words, 83 seven-letter words, 186 six-letter words, 256 five-letter words, 214 four-letter words, 104 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.