occasions needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
occasions is the highest-scoring word from occasions, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in occasions — and it is occasions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasions produces exactly one eight-letter word: occasion. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in occasions produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casinos. For points, the strongest play is cocains — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasions turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with casino and cocoas. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including cocoas, ciscos and cocain.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occasions. 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 occasions produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cans, coin and cons. For points, the strongest plays are coca and coco — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling occasions turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ass, can and con. 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 occasions. 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.
Swap a single tile in occasions and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
occasions 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 occasions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
occasions is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing occasions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is occasions, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from occasions 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 occasions produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.