occasional needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
occasional is the highest-scoring word from occasional, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in occasional — and it is occasional itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occasional. If a familiar word is all you need, start with occasion. For points, the strongest plays are colonics and occasion — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in occasional produces 12 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alcaics, calicos, cicalas and 5 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasional turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casino, cocoas, colons, and social. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including cocoas, alcaic and cacaos.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occasional. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cocoa, coins and colas. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including cocoa, cacao and cacas.
Rearranging the letters in occasional produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, cans and coin. For points, the strongest plays are caca, coca, and coco — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasional turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with can, con and oil. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including can, con and cal.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occasional. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and in. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and in.
occasional 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for occasional. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
occasional is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing occasional unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is occasional, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from occasional 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 occasional produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.