nutation needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
nutation is the highest-scoring word from nutation, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in nutation — and it is nutation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nutation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with union. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including union, anion and natto.
Rearranging the letters in nutation produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto and into. For points, 23 words tie at 4 points, including aunt, auto and into.
Unscrambling nutation turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, not and nun. For points, 27 words tie at 3 points, including ant, not and nun.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in nutation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, 15 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and in.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in nutation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in nutation and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
nutation 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 one sense for nutation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
nutation is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing nutation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is nutation, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from nutation 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 nutation produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.