petition needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
petition is the highest-scoring word from petition, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in petition — and it is petition itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling petition turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are pinite, pointe, potent and 3 more, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including point, inept and netop.
Rearranging the letters in petition produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, nope and note. For points, 13 words tie at 6 points, including nope, open and poet.
Unscrambling petition turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with net, not and one. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including pen, pet and pie.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in petition. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and no. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in petition plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in petition and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
petition 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 petition. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
petition is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing petition unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is petition, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from petition 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 petition produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.