positions needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 157 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
positions is the highest-scoring word from positions, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 157 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in positions — and it is positions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling positions produces exactly one eight-letter word: position. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in positions produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with options and poisons. For points, the strongest plays are isospin, options, pistons, poisons, postins, potions, and spintos — 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 positions turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insist, option, points, poison, and spoons. For points, the strongest plays are inspos, opsins, option, pinots, pintos, piston, pitons, points, poison, posits, postin, potion, ptosis, snoops, spinto, spoons, and stoops — 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 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in positions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point, posts, spins, spits, spoon, spots, and stops. For points, the strongest plays are inspo, opsin, pinot, pinto, pints, pions, pisos, piton, point, poons, posit, posts, snips, snoop, spins, spits, spoon, spots, stoop, stops, 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 positions produces 49 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, piss, pits, pois, pons, poon, poos, post, pots, psis, psst, sips, snip, sops, 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 positions turns up 36 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 positions. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in positions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in positions and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
positions 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 positions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
positions is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing positions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is positions, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from positions 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 positions produce 157 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.