migration 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, 272 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
migration is the highest-scoring word from migration, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 272 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in migration — and it is migration itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in migration. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ignorami, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in migration produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with martini. For points, the strongest plays are marting, migrant, mitring, moating, origami, and roaming — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling migration turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aiming, airing, origin, rating, and timing. For points, the strongest plays are aiming, arming, margin, mating, miring, morgan, riming, taming, and timing — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in migration. If a familiar word is all you need, start with among, giant, grant, groin, minor, organ, and tango. For points, the strongest plays are amigo, among, gamin, imago, magot, and mango — 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 migration produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, gain, goat, into, iron, main, and mint. For points, the strongest plays are gorm, gram, grim, magi, marg, and ogam — 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 migration turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, aim, air, ant, arm, art, and got. For points, the strongest plays are gam, mag, mig, and mog — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in migration. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, at, go, in, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in migration plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in migration 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.
migration 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 four senses for migration. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
migration is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing migration unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is migration, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from migration 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 migration produce 272 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.