Hidden inside infarction sit infarction and infraction, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
infarction and infraction tie for the highest Scrabble score from infarction at 15 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in infarction: one comes from rearranging its letters, and infarction 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 infarction and infraction, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infarction. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fraction and friction, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in infarction produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contain and fiction. For points, the strongest plays are faction, fiction, frantic, infarct, infract, and nonfact — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling infarction turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot, carton, ironic, and nation. For points, the strongest plays are confit, factor, fracti, franco, and fricot — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infarction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, front, and train. For points, the strongest plays are craft, croft, farci, ficin, finca, and franc — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in infarction produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, coat, coin, corn, fact, fair, and foci. For points, the strongest plays are coft, coif, corf, fact, fico, and foci — 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 infarction turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, art, can, car, and cat. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infarction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, if, in, it, no, and of. For points, the strongest plays are fa, 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.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in infarction plus one additional letter.
infarction 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 infarction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
infarction is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing infarction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are infarction and infraction, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from infarction 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 infarction produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.