Hidden inside distention sit dentitions, distention, and tendonitis, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 312 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dentitions, distention, and tendonitis tie for the highest Scrabble score from distention at 11 points. The top 10 of 312 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in distention: two come from rearranging its letters, and distention 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 dentitions, distention, and tendonitis, 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 distention produces exactly one nine-letter word: dentition. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editions. For points, the strongest plays are editions, otitides, and sedition — 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 distention produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dentist, edition, intends, tension, and tiniest. For points, the strongest plays are dentins, dentist, distent, ditties, dotiest, edition, indents, indites, intends, intoned, iodines, ionised, stinted, tendons, tidiest, and tineids — 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 distention turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with idiots, inside, intend, and tennis. For points, the strongest plays are dentin, dittos, donsie, idents, idiots, indent, indies, indite, inside, intend, iodine, iodins, iodise, noised, onside, sinned, sotted, stoned, teiids, teinds, tendon, tidies, tineid, tinned, tinted, todies, and toited — 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 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dines, edits, idiot, nines, noise, and notes. For points, the strongest plays are deist, dents, diets, dines, dinos, dints, dites, ditto, doest, doits, donne, dotes, edits, eidos, ident, idiot, indie, inned, iodin, nides, nitid, nodes, nosed, noted, odist, sited, snide, sonde, stied, teiid, teind, tends, tides, tined, tondi, 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 distention produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dine, does, done, dots, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are deni, dens, dent, desi, dies, diet, dine, dino, dins, dint, dite, dits, does, doit, done, dons, dose, dost, dote, dots, edit, ends, ides, nide, nidi, node, nodi, nods, odes, send, side, sned, teds, tend, tide, tied, tods, 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 distention turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, end, ids, its, net, and not. For points, the strongest plays are den, die, din, dis, dit, doe, don, dos, dot, eds, end, ids, nod, ode, ods, sod, 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, it, no, and on. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in distention plus one additional letter.
distention 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 distention. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
distention is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distention unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dentitions, distention, and tendonitis, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from distention 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 distention produce 312 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.