intention 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, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intention is the highest-scoring word from intention, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in intention — and it is intention itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intention produces exactly one seven-letter word: tontine. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intention turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are intent, intine, and intone, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intention. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are inion, innie, ninon and 5 more, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intention produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, nine and none. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including into, nine and none.
Unscrambling intention turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, not and one. For points, 15 words tie at 3 points, including net, not and one.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and no. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including in, it and no.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in intention plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in intention 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.
intention 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 three senses for intention. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
intention is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intention unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intention, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intention 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 intention produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.