Hidden inside decimation sit decimation and medication, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 514 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decimation and medication tie for the highest Scrabble score from decimation at 15 points. The top 10 of 514 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in decimation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decimation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with medication. For points, the strongest plays are decimation and medication — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decimation produces exactly one nine-letter word: mediation. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with comedian and indicate. For points, the strongest plays are comedian, daemonic, daimonic, demoniac, diatomic, medicant, and omnicide — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decimation produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with edition and noticed. For points, the strongest plays are coadmit, demonic, demotic, monacid, monadic, and nomadic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decimation turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, coined, donate, income, maiden, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are amidic, comade, medico, minced, and modica — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 112 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, admit, aimed, dance, demon, idiot, and meant. For points, the strongest plays are demic, domic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decimation produces 145 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, amen, atom, came, cent, coat, and code. For points, the strongest plays are acme, came, cami, camo, coma, come, emic, mace, mica, and mice — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decimation turns up 86 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid, aim, and, ant, ate, and can. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, mic, and moc — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, at, do, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in decimation plus one additional letter.
decimation 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 one sense for decimation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
decimation is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decimation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decimation and medication, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decimation 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 decimation produce 514 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 20 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 112 five-letter words, 145 four-letter words, 86 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.