Hidden inside denotation sit denotation and detonation, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 226 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denotation and detonation tie for the highest Scrabble score from denotation at 11 points. The top 10 of 226 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in denotation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and denotation 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 denotation and detonation, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling denotation 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 words are dentation and intonated, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denotation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donation. For points, the strongest plays are anointed, antidote, antinode, donation, dotation, noontide, and tetanoid — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in denotation produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intoned, notated, odonate, and tainted, 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 denotation turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attend, donate, intend, nation, and tanned. For points, the strongest plays are atoned, attend, dentin, detain, donate, indent, intend, iodate, nidate, tanned, tendon, tinned, tinted, toited, and tooted — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denotation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with onion. For points, the strongest plays are anode, anted, atted, danio, datto, ditto, donna, donne, ident, inned, noted, odeon, ootid, teind, tined, tondi, tondo, toned, and toted — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in denotation produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, diet, dine, done, edit, idea, and into. For points, the strongest plays are adit, aide, date, dato, dean, deni, dent, diet, dine, dino, dint, dita, dite, doat, doit, dona, done, dote, edit, idea, nide, node, nodi, odea, tend, tide, tied, toad, and toed — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling denotation turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, ant, ate, die, dot, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ado, aid, and, dan, den, die, din, dit, doe, don, dot, end, nod, oda, ode, tad, ted, and tod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denotation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, do, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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 denotation plus one additional letter.
denotation 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 two senses for denotation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
denotation is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing denotation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denotation and detonation, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from denotation 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 denotation produce 226 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.