occasionally needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 392 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
occasionally is the highest-scoring word from occasionally, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 392 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in occasionally — and it is occasionally itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasionally produces exactly one ten-letter word: occasional. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasionally turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are calycinal and conically, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occasionally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with occasion. For points, the strongest play is cyclonal — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in occasionally produces 25 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 cycasin, cyclins, and cynical, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasionally turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casino, cocoas and colons. For points, the strongest plays are cyanic, cyclin, cyclos, and cynics — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 105 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occasionally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calls, cocoa and coins. For points, the strongest plays are cycas, cyclo, and cynic — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in occasionally produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, call and cans. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including clay, acyl and cays.
Unscrambling occasionally turns up 55 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, any and can. For points, the strongest plays are cay, coy, and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occasionally. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, oy, ya, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
occasionally 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 one sense for occasionally. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
occasionally is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing occasionally unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is occasionally, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from occasionally 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 occasionally produce 392 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 105 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 55 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.