Hidden inside option sit option and potion, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
option and potion tie for the highest Scrabble score from option at 8 points. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in option: one comes from rearranging its letters, and option itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with option. For points, the strongest plays are option and potion — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling option turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with not, pin and pit. For points, 9 words tie at 5 points, including pin, pit and poo.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in option. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and no. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in option plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in option and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
option 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for option. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
option is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing option unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are option and potion, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from option 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 option produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.