Hidden inside oscillation sit colonialist and oscillation, eleven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 501 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
colonialist and oscillation tie for the highest Scrabble score from oscillation at 13 points. The top 10 of 501 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eleven-letter words hiding in oscillation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and oscillation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are colonialist and oscillation, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in oscillation produces 4 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coalitions, collations, cotillions, and octillions, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling oscillation turns up 16 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with locations. For points, 14 words tie at 11 points, including locations, coalition and coitional.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oscillation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with location. For points, 14 words tie at 10 points, including location, allicins and altcoins.
Rearranging the letters in oscillation produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, install, and lotions. For points, 24 words tie at 9 points, including actions, alcools and allicin.
Unscrambling oscillation turns up 67 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, casino and colons. For points, 45 words tie at 8 points, including action, casino and colons.
There are 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oscillation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calls, coast and coats. For points, 63 words tie at 7 points, including calls, coast and coats.
Rearranging the letters in oscillation produces 148 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also and ants. For points, 49 words tie at 6 points, including acts, call and cans.
Unscrambling oscillation turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, all and ant. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and cat.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in oscillation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 21 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
6 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in oscillation plus one additional letter.
oscillation 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 three senses for oscillation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
oscillation is one of two eleven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing oscillation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are colonialist and oscillation, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from oscillation 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 oscillation produce 501 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eleven-letter words, 4 ten-letter words, 16 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 67 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 148 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.