mentation needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mentation is the highest-scoring word from mentation, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in mentation — and it is mentation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nominate. For points, the strongest plays are antinome, nominate, and ointment — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mentation produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mention. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including mention, amniote and mannite.
Unscrambling mentation turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nation. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including amnion, anomie and etamin.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including meant, ament and amine.
Rearranging the letters in mentation produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom and into. For points, 36 words tie at 6 points, including amen, atom and item.
Unscrambling mentation turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ate. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including aim, man and men.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mentation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in mentation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mentation 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.
mentation 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 mentation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
mentation is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mentation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mentation, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mentation 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 mentation produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.