Hidden inside inactions sit inactions and onanistic, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 222 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inactions and onanistic tie for the highest Scrabble score from inactions at 11 points. The top 10 of 222 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in inactions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and inactions 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 inactions and onanistic, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inactions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contains. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including contains, actinons and canonist.
Rearranging the letters in inactions produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, contain, and nations. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including actions, contain and actinon.
Unscrambling inactions turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot, casino, and nation. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including action, cannot and casino.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inactions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats and coins. For points, 31 words tie at 7 points, including coast, coats and coins.
Rearranging the letters in inactions produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and cans. For points, 26 words tie at 6 points, including acts, cans and cast.
Unscrambling inactions turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and can. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and cat.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inactions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
9 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in inactions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in inactions 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.
inactions 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for inactions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
inactions is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inactions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are inactions and onanistic, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inactions 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 inactions produce 222 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.