Hidden inside motioners sit motioners and remotions, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 480 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
motioners and remotions tie for the highest Scrabble score from motioners at 11 points. The top 10 of 480 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in motioners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and motioners itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are motioners and remotions, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motioners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emotions and monitors. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including emotions, monitors and ionomers.
Rearranging the letters in motioners produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emotion, mentors and moister. For points, 26 words tie at 9 points, including emotion, mentors and moister.
Unscrambling motioners turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentor, morons and motion. For points, 36 words tie at 8 points, including mentor, morons and motion.
There are 132 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motioners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, items and minor. For points, 57 words tie at 7 points, including items, minor and mints.
Rearranging the letters in motioners produces 127 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mine, mint and moon. For points, 51 words tie at 6 points, including mine, mint and moon.
Unscrambling motioners turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, men and met. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including men, met and moo.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motioners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in motioners plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in motioners 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.
motioners 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.
motioners is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing motioners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are motioners and remotions, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from motioners 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 motioners produce 480 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 132 five-letter words, 127 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.