invention needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 63 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
invention is the highest-scoring word from invention, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 63 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in invention — and it is invention itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling invention turns up 4 six-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: invent and invite, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in invention. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are envoi, ovine, and venin, 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 invention produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, nine, none, note, oven, tone, and vein. For points, the strongest plays are nevi, oven, vein, vent, veto, vine, vino, and vote — 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 invention turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, not, one, ten, tie, tin, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are vet, vie, vin, and voe — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in invention. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are en, et, in, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in invention plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in invention 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.
invention 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 4-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 invention. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
invention is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing invention unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is invention, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from invention 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 invention produce 63 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.