moderation needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 682 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moderation is the highest-scoring word from moderation, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 682 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in moderation — and it is moderation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moderation turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with monitored. For points, the strongest plays are admonitor, dominator, and monitored — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demotion, dominate, dormient and 5 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moderation produces 43 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doorman, doormen and emotion. For points, 18 words tie at 10 points, including doorman, doormen and amidone.
Unscrambling moderation turns up 116 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, donate and dreamt. For points, 41 words tie at 9 points, including admire, dreamt and maiden.
There are 158 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, adore and aimed. For points, 32 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and armed.
Rearranging the letters in moderation produces 197 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom and made. For points, 19 words tie at 7 points, including made, maid and mind.
Unscrambling moderation turns up 111 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and air. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 36 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in moderation plus one additional letter.
moderation 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 2-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 moderation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
moderation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moderation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is moderation, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from moderation 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 moderation produce 682 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 43 seven-letter words, 116 six-letter words, 158 five-letter words, 197 four-letter words, 111 three-letter words and 36 two-letter words.