portion needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
portion is the highest-scoring word from portion, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in portion — and it is portion itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling portion turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with option. For points, the strongest plays are option, potion, pronto, proton, and tropin — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point, print, and troop. For points, the strongest plays are orpin, pinot, pinto, piton, point, poori, porin, porno, print, prion, topoi, and troop — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in portion produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron, onto, poor, porn, riot, and root. For points, the strongest plays are pint, pion, pirn, poon, poor, porn, port, topi, topo, trip, and trop — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling portion turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nor, not, pin, pit, poo, pot, and pro. For points, the strongest plays are nip, opt, pin, pit, poi, poo, pot, pro, rip, tip, and top — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in portion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it, no, on, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in portion and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
portion 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 eight senses for portion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
portion is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing portion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is portion, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from portion 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 portion produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.