Hidden inside positioned sit deposition and positioned, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 451 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deposition and positioned tie for the highest Scrabble score from positioned at 13 points. The top 10 of 451 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in positioned: one comes from rearranging its letters, and positioned itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deposition and positioned, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in positioned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editions, poisoned, and position. For points, the strongest plays are iodopsin, optioned, and poisoned — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in positioned produces 32 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deposit, edition, options, and pointed. For points, the strongest plays are deposit, dipnets, dopiest, opioids, podites, pointed, posited, snooped, sopited, spooned, stipend, stooped, and topside — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling positioned turns up 68 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with idiots, inside, option, pitied, pities, points, and poison. For points, the strongest plays are depots, despot, dipnet, dopest, isopod, opined, opioid, pitied, podite, poinds, poised, ponied, posted, sniped, spined, spited, stiped, and stoped — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 114 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in positioned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dines, edits, idiot, noise, notes, and opens. For points, the strongest plays are depot, dipso, dopes, opted, pedis, pends, pined, poind, ponds, poods, pooed, posed, siped, spend, spied, spode, tepid, and toped — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in positioned produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets, nope, nose, note, ones, and onto. For points, the strongest plays are oped, pedi, peds, pend, pied, pods, pond, pood, sped, deps, dips, dipt, and dope — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling positioned turns up 75 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip, dot, end, ids, its, and net. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in positioned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in positioned plus one additional letter.
positioned 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.
positioned is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing positioned unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deposition and positioned, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from positioned 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 positioned produce 451 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 32 seven-letter words, 68 six-letter words, 114 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 75 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.