decoction needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decoction is the highest-scoring word from decoction, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in decoction — and it is decoction itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling decoction produces exactly one eight-letter word: occident. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decoction produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noticed. For points, the strongest play is docetic — 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 decoction turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined and notice. For points, the strongest plays are decoct and ticced — 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 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decoction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with condo. For points, the strongest play is codec — 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 decoction produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cone, dice, diet, and dine. For points, the strongest play is coco — 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 decoction turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die, dot, end, ice, net, and not. 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decoction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, it, no, on, and to. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in decoction plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decoction 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.
decoction 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 decoction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
decoction is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decoction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is decoction, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from decoction 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 decoction produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.