Hidden inside filtration sit filtration and flirtation, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 268 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
filtration and flirtation tie for the highest Scrabble score from filtration at 13 points. The top 10 of 268 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in filtration: one comes from rearranging its letters, and filtration 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 filtration and flirtation, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filtration. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are flatiron and inflator, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in filtration produces 6 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 airfoil, airlift, frontal and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling filtration turns up 22 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are finial, finito, florin and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filtration. If a familiar word is all you need, start with final, flirt and float. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including final, flirt and float.
Rearranging the letters in filtration produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fail, fair and flat. For points, 36 words tie at 7 points, including fail, fair and flat.
Unscrambling filtration turns up 57 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including fan, far and fat.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in filtration. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and if. For points, the strongest plays are fa, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in filtration plus one additional letter.
filtration 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 filtration. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
filtration is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing filtration unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are filtration and flirtation, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from filtration 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 filtration produce 268 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 57 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.