intension 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, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intension is the highest-scoring word from intension, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in intension — and it is intension itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intension produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tension. For points, the strongest plays are inosine, inosite, intines, intones, ninnies, and tension — 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 intension turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tennis. For points, the strongest plays are inions, innies, intine, intone, ionise, ninons, nitons, nonets, seniti, sennit, sinnet, sonnet, tennis, tennos, tenons, and tonnes — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nines, noise, notes, stone, and tones. For points, the strongest plays are eosin, inion, innie, inset, intis, neist, neons, nines, ninon, nisei, nites, niton, noise, nones, nonet, nonis, notes, onset, senti, seton, stein, steno, stone, teins, tenno, tenon, tines, tones, and tonne — 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 intension produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, nest, nets, nine, none, nose, and note. For points, the strongest plays are eons, inns, inti, into, ions, neon, nest, nets, nine, nisi, nite, nits, noes, none, noni, nose, note, ones, sent, sine, site, snit, snot, sone, tein, tens, ties, tine, tins, toes, tone, and tons — 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 intension turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net, not, one, set, sin, and sit. For points, the strongest plays are ens, eon, est, inn, ins, ion, its, net, nit, nos, not, oes, one, ons, ose, sei, sen, set, sin, sit, son, sot, ten, tes, tie, tin, tis, toe, and ton — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intension. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, es, et, in, is, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, 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.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in intension plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in intension 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.
intension 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 intension. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
intension is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intension unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intension, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intension 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 intension produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.