durations needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 536 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
durations is the highest-scoring word from durations, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 536 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in durations — and it is durations itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in durations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinosaur. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including dinosaur, auditors and diatrons.
Rearranging the letters in durations produces 22 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are astound, auditor, diatron and 11 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling durations turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with around, donuts and drains. For points, 41 words tie at 7 points, including around, donuts and drains.
There are 143 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in durations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos and donut. For points, 67 words tie at 6 points, including donut, drain and radio.
Rearranging the letters in durations produces 173 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and ants. For points, 69 words tie at 5 points, including aids, rids and road.
Unscrambling durations turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, 30 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and and.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in durations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and id.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in durations plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in durations 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.
durations 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 three senses for durations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
durations is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing durations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is durations, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from durations 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 durations produce 536 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 143 five-letter words, 173 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.