valuations needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 418 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
valuations is the highest-scoring word from valuations, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 418 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in valuations — and it is valuations itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling valuations turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lavations, salvation, and valuation, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valuations. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are avulsion, lavation, valiants and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in valuations produces 14 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 valiant, valonia, valutas and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling valuations turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insult and vaults. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including vaults, anvils and avails.
There are 111 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valuations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos and lavas. For points, 35 words tie at 8 points, including lavas, vault and anvil.
Rearranging the letters in valuations produces 139 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants and anus. For points, 26 words tie at 7 points, including lava, vans and avos.
Unscrambling valuations turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, its and lit. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including van, ava and avo.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in valuations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 26 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in valuations plus one additional letter.
valuations 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 two senses for valuations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
valuations is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing valuations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is valuations, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from valuations 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 valuations produce 418 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 111 five-letter words, 139 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.