quotation needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quotation is the highest-scoring word from quotation, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in quotation — and it is quotation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quotation turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are quaint, quinoa, and quinta, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quotation. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are quant, quint, quoin and 2 more, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in quotation produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto and into. For points, the strongest plays are quai, quin, and quit — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quotation turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, not and nut. For points, the strongest plays are qat and qua — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quotation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, the strongest play is qi — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in quotation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in quotation 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.
quotation 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 quotation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
quotation is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quotation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is quotation, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from quotation 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 quotation produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.