duration needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
duration is the highest-scoring word from duration, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in duration — and it is duration itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in duration produces 5 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 auditor, diatron, rotunda, and unitard, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling duration turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with around. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including around, adroit and diuron.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duration. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donut, drain and radio. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including donut, drain and radio.
Rearranging the letters in duration produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto and dirt. For points, 36 words tie at 5 points, including dirt, road and toad.
Unscrambling duration turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air and and. For points, 22 words tie at 4 points, including aid, and and dot.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duration. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and id.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in duration plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in duration and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
duration 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 duration. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
duration is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing duration unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is duration, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from duration 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 duration produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.