durations needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 536 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
durations is the highest-scoring word from durations, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 536 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in durations — and it is durations itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in durations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dinosaur. For points, the strongest plays are auditors, diatrons, dinosaur, duration, intrados, rotundas, sudation, and unitards — 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 durations produces 22 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 astound, auditor, diatron, diurons, donairs, durians, durions, inroads, ordains, outsaid, rotunda, sadiron, tundras, and unitard, 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 durations turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with around, donuts, drains, radios, rounds, studio, and trains. For points, the strongest plays are adonis, adorns, adroit, andros, aroids, around, audios, audist, audits, danios, daunts, dinars, diuron, donair, donuts, douras, drains, droits, durian, durion, inroad, nadirs, nudist, ordain, radios, radius, radons, randos, ranids, rotund, rounds, rudist, soudan, stound, strand, stroud, studio, triads, tundra, unsaid, and untrod — 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 143 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in durations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos, donut, drain, irons, radio, and rains. For points, the strongest plays are adios, adits, adorn, adust, andro, aroid, audio, audit, danio, darns, darts, datos, daunt, dauts, dinar, dinos, dints, dirts, ditas, doats, doits, donas, donut, dorsa, dosai, doura, douts, drain, drats, droit, duits, dunts, duras, durns, duros, durst, nadir, nards, nidus, nodus, nurds, odist, radio, radon, raids, rando, rands, ranid, rinds, roads, roids, round, sarod, sound, staid, stand, sudor, tardo, toads, tondi, trads, triad, tsadi, turds, udons, undos, and ursid — 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 durations produces 173 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, ants, anus, arts, aunt, and auto. For points, the strongest plays are adit, ados, aids, ands, arid, nard, nodi, nods, nurd, odas, orad, ouds, rads, raid, rand, rids, rind, road, rods, roid, sadi, said, sand, sard, soda, sord, stud, dais, dans, darn, dart, dato, daut, dino, dins, dint, dirt, dita, dits, doat, doit, dona, dons, dors, dosa, dost, dots, dour, dout, drat, duit, duns, dunt, duos, dura, durn, duro, dust, surd, tads, toad, tods, trad, trod, turd, udon, udos, undo, and urds — 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 durations turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, ant, art, and dot. For points, the strongest plays are ado, ads, aid, and, dan, das, din, dis, dit, don, dor, dos, dot, dui, dun, duo, ids, nod, oda, ods, oud, rad, rid, rod, sad, sod, tad, tod, udo, and urd — 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in durations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, do, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, do, 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 durations plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in durations 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.
durations 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 three senses for durations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
durations is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing durations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is durations, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from durations 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 durations produce 536 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 9 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 143 five-letter words, 173 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.