intentions needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 170 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intentions is the highest-scoring word from intentions, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 170 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in intentions — and it is intentions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intentions turns up 2 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intention. For points, the strongest plays are intension and intention — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intentions. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are tinniest, tinstone, and tontines, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intentions produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tension and tiniest. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including tension, tiniest and inosine.
Unscrambling intentions turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tennis. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including tennis, inions and innies.
There are 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intentions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nines, noise and notes. For points, 37 words tie at 5 points, including nines, noise and notes.
Rearranging the letters in intentions produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, nest and nets. For points, 46 words tie at 4 points, including into, nest and nets.
Unscrambling intentions turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, net and not. For points, 32 words tie at 3 points, including its, net and not.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intentions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and it.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in intentions plus one additional letter.
intentions 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 intentions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
intentions is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intentions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intentions, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intentions 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 intentions produce 170 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.