Hidden inside demotion sit demotion and motioned, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 151 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demotion and motioned tie for the highest Scrabble score from demotion at 11 points. The top 10 of 151 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in demotion: one comes from rearranging its letters, and demotion itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demotion and motioned, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling demotion produces exactly one seven-letter word: emotion. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demotion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon and mooed. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including demon, mooed and demit.
Rearranging the letters in demotion produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dime and dine. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including dime, doom and mind.
Unscrambling demotion turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and end. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dim, dom and med.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demotion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and in. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in demotion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in demotion and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
demotion 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 one sense for demotion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
demotion is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demotion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demotion and motioned, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demotion 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 demotion produce 151 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.