extension needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
extension is the highest-scoring word from extension, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in extension — and it is extension itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in extension produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intense, sixteen, and tension. For points, the strongest plays are sixteen and toxines — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling extension turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tennis. For points, 5 words tie at 13 points, including exines, sexton and toxine.
There are 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exist, exits and nines. For points, 10 words tie at 12 points, including exist, exits and exine.
Rearranging the letters in extension produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with exes, exit and into. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including exes, exit and next.
Unscrambling extension turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net and not. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including sex, six and sox.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in extension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ex, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are ex, ox, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in extension plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in extension 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.
extension 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 twelve senses for extension. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
extension is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing extension unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is extension, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from extension 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 extension produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.