insertion needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 304 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
insertion is the highest-scoring word from insertion, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 304 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in insertion — and it is insertion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in insertion. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intoners, ironiest, tenorini, and ternions, 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 insertion produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with interns, ironies, and tension. For points, the strongest plays are inosine, inosite, interns, intines, intoner, intones, introns, ioniser, ironies, ironise, ironist, noisier, norites, oestrin, orients, rotinis, stonier, tension, ternion, tinners, tinnier, and tonners — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling insertion turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intern, senior, tennis, and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are estrin, inerts, inions, inners, innies, insert, intern, inters, intine, intone, intron, intros, ionise, irones, nestor, niners, niters, nitons, nitres, nitros, nonets, norite, nosier, noters, orient, renins, ronins, rotini, senior, seniti, sennit, sinner, sinnet, sinter, sonnet, sortie, stoner, strine, tennis, tennos, tenons, tenors, tensor, tinier, tinner, toners, tonier, tonner, tonnes, tories, triens, trines, triose, and trones — 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 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in insertion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with inner, irons, nines, noise, notes, rents, and riots. For points, the strongest plays are eosin, inert, inion, inner, innie, inros, inset, inter, intis, intro, irone, irons, neist, neons, nerts, niner, nines, nisei, niter, nites, niton, nitre, nitro, noirs, noise, nones, nonet, nonis, noris, noter, notes, onset, ornis, osier, reins, renin, renos, rents, resin, resit, rinse, riots, risen, rites, ronin, roset, rosin, rosti, rotes, rotis, senor, senti, serin, seton, siren, snore, snort, stein, steno, stern, stone, store, teins, tenno, tenon, tenor, terns, tiers, tines, tires, tiros, toner, tones, tonne, tores, torii, torse, torsi, tries, trine, trios, trois, and trone — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in insertion produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron, nest, nets, nine, none, and nose. For points, the strongest plays are eons, erns, eros, erst, inns, inro, inti, into, ions, ires, iris, iron, neon, nest, nets, nine, nisi, nite, nits, noes, noir, none, noni, nori, nose, note, ones, ores, orts, rein, reis, reno, rent, rest, rets, rins, riot, rise, rite, roes, rose, rote, roti, rots, sent, sine, sire, site, snit, snot, sone, sore, sori, sorn, sort, stir, tein, tens, tern, tier, ties, tine, tins, tire, tiro, toes, tone, tons, tore, tori, torn, tors, tres, and trio — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling insertion turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, nor, not, one, set, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are ens, eon, ern, ers, est, inn, ins, ion, ire, its, net, nit, nor, nos, not, oes, one, ons, ore, ors, ort, ose, rei, res, ret, rin, roe, rot, sei, sen, ser, set, sin, sir, sit, son, sot, sri, ten, tes, tie, tin, tis, toe, ton, and tor — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in insertion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, te, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in insertion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in insertion 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.
insertion 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 insertion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
insertion is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing insertion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is insertion, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from insertion 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 insertion produce 304 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.