Hidden inside declension sit declension and indolences, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 452 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
declension and indolences tie for the highest Scrabble score from declension at 13 points. The top 10 of 452 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in declension: one comes from rearranging its letters, and declension itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are declension and indolences, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling declension turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is indolence, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in declension. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are codeines, condense, declines, enclosed, incensed, inclosed, licensed, and silenced, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in declension produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with license and silence. For points, the strongest plays are codeine, codeins, codlins, deciles, decline, diocese, eclosed, encodes, seconde, and secondi — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling declension turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clones, closed, coined, denies, nieces, online, and second. For points, the strongest plays are ceiled, censed, cloned, closed, codein, codens, codlin, coiled, coined, conned, cosied, decile, deices, docile, edenic, encode, second, and sliced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 117 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in declension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clone, close, codes, coins, colds, cones, and delis. For points, the strongest plays are cedes, cedis, clods, coden, codes, coeds, colds, coled, coned, decos, deice, dices, disco, dolce, dolci, scend, scold, and sodic — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in declension produces 131 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, coin, cold, cone, cons, deli, and dice. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, clod, code, cods, coed, cold, deco, dice, disc, docs, iced, and odic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling declension turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die, end, ice, ids, led, and lid. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in declension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, no, on, and so. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in declension plus one additional letter.
declension 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for declension. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
declension is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing declension unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are declension and indolences, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from declension 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 declension produce 452 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 117 five-letter words, 131 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.