machination needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 291 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
machination is the highest-scoring word from machination, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 291 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in machination — and it is machination itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling machination turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is antimacho, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in machination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maintain. For points, the strongest play is chainman — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in machination produces 20 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contain. For points, the strongest plays are acanthi, chianti, himatia, hominin, mahonia, manihot, thiamin, and thionic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling machination turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot, maniac, and nation. For points, the strongest play is matcha — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 57 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in machination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chain, match, month, nacho, ninth, and notch. For points, the strongest plays are macho, match, mocha, mochi, and ohmic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in machination produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, chat, chin, coat, coin, coma, and hint. For points, the strongest plays are cham and mach — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling machination turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aah, act, aha, aim, ant, can, and cat. For points, the strongest plays are chi, ham, hic, him, hom, ich, mho, och, and ohm — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in machination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am, an, at, ha, hi, and hm. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in machination plus one additional letter.
machination 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 machination. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
machination is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing machination unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is machination, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from machination 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 machination produce 291 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 20 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 57 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.