motivation needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
motivation is the highest-scoring word from motivation, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in motivation — and it is motivation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in motivation produces 4 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: vitamin, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling motivation turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with motion and tomato. For points, the strongest plays are movant, vimina, and vomito — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motivation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with vomit. For points, the strongest plays are mavin and vomit — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in motivation produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, into and main. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including nova, vain and vina.
Unscrambling motivation turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and man. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in motivation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, ma and mi.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in motivation plus one additional letter.
motivation 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 three senses for motivation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
motivation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing motivation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is motivation, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from motivation 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 motivation produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.