Hidden inside pulsation sit platinous and pulsation, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 535 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
platinous and pulsation tie for the highest Scrabble score from pulsation at 11 points. The top 10 of 535 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in pulsation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and pulsation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are platinous and pulsation, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pulsation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are nuptials, opuntias, outplans and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pulsation produces 25 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are apostil, nuptial, opuntia and 18 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pulsation turns up 63 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insult, paints and pianos. For points, 47 words tie at 8 points, including paints, pianos and pilots.
There are 134 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pulsation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunts, autos and lions. For points, 74 words tie at 7 points, including pains, paint and pants.
Rearranging the letters in pulsation produces 178 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with also, ants and anus. For points, 75 words tie at 6 points, including laps, lips and naps.
Unscrambling pulsation turns up 96 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, its and lap. For points, 42 words tie at 5 points, including lap, lip and nap.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pulsation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including up, op and pa.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in pulsation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in pulsation 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.
pulsation 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for pulsation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
pulsation is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pulsation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are platinous and pulsation, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from pulsation 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 pulsation produce 535 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 63 six-letter words, 134 five-letter words, 178 four-letter words, 96 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.