Hidden inside positron sit portions, positron, and sorption, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 225 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
portions, positron, and sorption tie for the highest Scrabble score from positron at 10 points. The top 10 of 225 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in positron: two come from rearranging its letters, and positron itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are portions, positron, and sorption, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in positron produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with options. For points, the strongest plays are options, portion, potions, protons, and tropins — 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 positron turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with option, points, poison, prints, prison, and troops. For points, the strongest plays are option, orpins, pinots, pintos, piston, pitons, points, poison, pooris, porins, pornos, postin, potion, prints, prions, prison, pronto, prosit, proton, ripost, spinor, spinto, sprint, tripos, troops, 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in positron. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, point, porns, print, riots, roots, and spoon. For points, the strongest plays are inspo, opsin, orpin, pinot, pinto, pints, pions, pirns, piton, point, poons, poori, porin, porno, porns, ports, posit, print, prion, proso, prost, snoop, sopor, spirt, spoon, spoor, sport, sprit, stirp, stoop, strip, strop, topis, topoi, topos, trips, 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 positron produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron, onto, oops, pins, pits, and poor. For points, the strongest plays are nips, oops, opts, pins, pint, pion, pirn, piso, pits, pois, pons, poon, poor, poos, porn, port, post, pots, pros, rips, snip, spin, spit, spot, stop, tips, topi, topo, tops, 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 positron turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with its, nor, not, pin, pit, poo, and pot. For points, the strongest plays are nip, ops, opt, pin, pis, pit, poi, poo, pos, pot, pro, psi, pst, rip, 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in positron. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. 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 positron 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.
positron 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 one sense for positron. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
positron is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing positron unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are portions, positron, and sorption, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from positron 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 positron produce 225 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.