professions needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 443 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
professions is the highest-scoring word from professions, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 443 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in professions — and it is professions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling professions produces exactly one ten-letter word: profession. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling professions turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are opsonises, poisoners, and prosiness, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in professions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sponsors. For points, the strongest play is spoofers — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in professions produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with persons, poisons and prisons. For points, the strongest plays are poofier, profess, and spoofer — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling professions turns up 80 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noises, person and poison. For points, the strongest plays are proofs and spoofs — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in professions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, fires and fries. For points, the strongest plays are profs, proof, and spoof — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in professions produces 106 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nope, nose and ones. For points, the strongest plays are poof, prof, and fops — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling professions turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with for, nor and one. For points, the strongest play is fop — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in professions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
professions 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 four senses for professions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
professions is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing professions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is professions, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from professions 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 professions produce 443 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 80 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 106 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.