Hidden inside impaction sit impaction and ptomainic, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
impaction and ptomainic tie for the highest Scrabble score from impaction at 15 points. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in impaction: one comes from rearranging its letters, and impaction itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impaction and ptomainic, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impaction. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amniotic and optician, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impaction produces 12 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 apomict, campion, and potamic, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impaction turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action and tampon. For points, the strongest play is impact — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impaction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with paint, panic and piano. For points, the strongest plays are campi, campo, and compt — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in impaction produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, camp and coat. For points, the strongest plays are camp and comp — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling impaction turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aim and ant. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cop and map.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in impaction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in impaction plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in impaction 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.
impaction 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 four senses for impaction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
impaction is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing impaction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are impaction and ptomainic, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from impaction 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 impaction produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.