dictations needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 361 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dictations is the highest-scoring word from dictations, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 361 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in dictations — and it is dictations itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dictations turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actinoids and dictation, each worth 12 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 dictations. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actinoid, diatonic, dictions, and distinct, 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 dictations produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, distant, and station. For points, the strongest plays are conidia, dacoits, diction, discant, and indicts — 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 dictations turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, attics, casino, and idiots. For points, the strongest plays are anodic, canids, dacoit, dicast, dicots, indict, nicads, and octads — 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 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dictations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, attic, coast, coats, coins, disco, and idiot. For points, the strongest plays are acids, asdic, cadis, caids, canid, cnida, codas, dicot, dicta, disci, disco, iodic, nicad, octad, 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 dictations produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, ants, cans, cast, and cats. For points, the strongest plays are acid, cadi, cads, caid, coda, cods, disc, docs, odic, and scad — 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 dictations turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, and, ant, can, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are cad, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dictations. 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in dictations plus one additional letter.
dictations 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 dictations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
dictations is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dictations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dictations, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dictations 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 dictations produce 361 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.