position 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, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
position is the highest-scoring word from position, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in position — and it is position itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in position produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with options. For points, the strongest plays are options and potions — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling position turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with option, points, and poison. For points, the strongest plays are option, pinots, pintos, piston, pitons, points, poison, postin, potion, and spinto — 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 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in position. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point and spoon. For points, the strongest plays are inspo, opsin, pinot, pinto, pints, pions, piton, point, poons, posit, snoop, spoon, stoop, tipis, topis, topoi, and topos — 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 position produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, onto, oops, pins, pits, poos, and post. For points, the strongest plays are nips, oops, opts, pins, pint, pion, piso, pits, pois, pons, poon, poos, post, pots, snip, spin, spit, spot, stop, tipi, tips, topi, topo, and tops — 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 position turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, not, pin, pit, poo, pot, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are nip, ops, opt, pin, pis, pit, poi, poo, pos, pot, psi, pst, sip, sop, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in position. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, 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 position 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.
position 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 eighteen senses for position. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
position is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing position unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is position, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from position 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 position produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.