occlusion 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, 138 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
occlusion is the highest-scoring word from occlusion, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 138 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in occlusion — and it is occlusion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occlusion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with councils. For points, the strongest plays are colonics and councils — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in occlusion produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with council. For points, the strongest plays are colonic and council — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling occlusion turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colons and cousin. For points, the strongest plays are clonic, colics, and conics — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occlusion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coins, colon, cools, and lions. For points, the strongest plays are cisco, cocos, colic, and conic — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in occlusion produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coin, cons, cool, lion, oils, soli, and solo. For points, the strongest play is coco — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling occlusion turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, oil, sin, son, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are cis, col, con, coo, cos, loc, sic, and soc — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in occlusion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are in, is, li, lo, no, nu, oi, on, os, si, so, un, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in occlusion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in occlusion 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.
occlusion 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for occlusion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
occlusion is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing occlusion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is occlusion, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from occlusion 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 occlusion produce 138 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.