Hidden inside domination sit admonition and domination, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 183 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
admonition and domination tie for the highest Scrabble score from domination at 13 points. The top 10 of 183 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in domination: one comes from rearranging its letters, and domination 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 admonition and domination, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in domination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donation. For points, the strongest plays are dominant and dominion — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in domination produces 3 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 indamin and midnoon, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling domination turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with motion and nation. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including amidin, daimio and daimon.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in domination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, idiot, and onion. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including admit, admin and amido.
Rearranging the letters in domination produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, damn and doom. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including damn, doom and maid.
Unscrambling domination turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in domination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in domination plus one additional letter.
domination 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 3-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 domination. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
domination is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing domination unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are admonition and domination, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from domination 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 domination produce 183 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.