damnation needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
damnation is the highest-scoring word from damnation, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in damnation — and it is damnation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damnation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dominant and manatoid, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in damnation produces 3 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 madonna, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling damnation turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nation. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including aidman, daimon and diatom.
There are 25 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damnation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including admit, adman and admin.
Rearranging the letters in damnation produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, damn and data. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including damn, maid and mind.
Unscrambling damnation turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in damnation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in damnation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in damnation 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.
damnation 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 two senses for damnation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
damnation is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing damnation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is damnation, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from damnation 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 damnation produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 25 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.