function needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
function is the highest-scoring word from function, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in function — and it is function itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling function produces exactly one seven-letter word: unction. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling function turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is confit, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in function. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count and union. For points, the strongest plays are fount, futon, and unfit — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in function produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, foci, into, and unit. For points, the strongest plays are coft, coif, cuif, fico, foci, and fuci — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling function turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cut, fit, fun, not, nun, and nut. For points, the strongest plays are fin, fit, fon, fou, fun, and oft — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in function. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in, it, no, of, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are if and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in function 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.
function 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record ten senses for function. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
function is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing function unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is function, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from function 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 function produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.