motions needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
motions is the highest-scoring word from motions, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in motions — and it is motions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling motions turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with motion. For points, the strongest plays are inmost, monist, motion, simoon, and somoni — 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 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mints, moist, and moons. For points, the strongest plays are mints, moist, monos, moons, moots, nomoi, nomos, and omits — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in motions produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, mint, moon, moos, most, onto, and soon. For points, the strongest plays are mint, miso, mist, mono, mons, moon, moos, moot, most, mots, nims, noms, omit, smit, stim, toms, and toom — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling motions turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, moo, not, sin, sit, son, and tin. For points, the strongest plays are ism, mis, moi, mon, moo, mos, mot, nim, nom, oms, sim, som, and tom — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
Swap a single tile in motions and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
motions 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 eight senses for motions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
motions is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing motions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is motions, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from motions 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 motions produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.