Hidden inside rationing sit arointing and rationing, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
arointing and rationing tie for the highest Scrabble score from rationing at 10 points. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in rationing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rationing 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 arointing and rationing, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rationing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ignorant and training. For points, the strongest plays are ignitron, ignorant, rigatoni, and training — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rationing produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raining. For points, the strongest plays are airting, atoning, ignitor, ingrain, ironing, orating, raining, ranting, rioting, and trining — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rationing turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airing, nation, origin, and rating. For points, the strongest plays are airing, anting, artigi, gitano, gratin, noting, oaring, onagri, origan, origin, rating, taring, tignon, tining, tiring, toning, and trigon — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rationing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with giant, grant, groin, organ, tango, and train. For points, the strongest plays are argon, argot, atigi, garni, gator, giant, giron, gonia, gonna, grain, grant, griot, groan, groat, groin, ingot, iring, orang, organ, tango, tigon, tonga, tragi, and trigo — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rationing produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gain, goat, into, iron, rain, rang, and ring. For points, the strongest plays are agin, agio, agon, agro, gain, gait, girn, giro, girt, gnar, gnat, goat, gran, grat, grin, grit, grot, ragi, rang, ring, tang, ting, toga, tong, trig, and trog — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rationing turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ago, air, ant, art, got, nag, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are ago, gan, gar, gat, gin, git, goa, gor, got, nag, nog, org, rag, rig, tag, and tog — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rationing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in rationing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rationing 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.
rationing 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 3-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 rationing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
rationing is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rationing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are arointing and rationing, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rationing 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 rationing produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.