occasion needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
occasion is the highest-scoring word from occasion, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in occasion — and it is occasion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasion produces exactly one seven-letter word: cocains. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasion turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casino and cocoas. For points, the strongest plays are cocain, cocoas, conics, and siccan — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occasion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cocoa and coins. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including cocoa, cisco and cocas.
Rearranging the letters in occasion produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, coin, cons, and soon. For points, the strongest plays are coca and coco — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasion turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, con, sin, and son. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including can, con and cis.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occasion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and in. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and in.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in occasion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in occasion 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.
occasion 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 six senses for occasion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
occasion is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing occasion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is occasion, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from occasion 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 occasion produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.