Hidden inside ration sit aroint and ration, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aroint and ration tie for the highest Scrabble score from ration at 6 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in ration: one comes from rearranging its letters, and ration itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aroint and ration, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ration. If a familiar word is all you need, start with train. For points, the strongest plays are intro, nitro, noria, ratio, riant, train, and trona — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ration produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with into, iron, rain, riot, and torn. For points, the strongest plays are airn, airt, anti, inro, into, iota, iron, naoi, noir, nori, nota, rain, rani, rant, rato, riot, roan, rota, roti, tain, tarn, taro, tian, tiro, tora, tori, torn, and trio — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ration turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, nor, not, ran, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are ain, air, ait, ani, ant, aro, art, ion, nit, nor, not, oar, oat, ora, ort, rai, ran, rat, ria, rin, rot, tan, tao, tar, tin, ton, and tor — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ration. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are ai, an, ar, at, in, it, na, no, oi, on, or, ta, ti, and to — each worth 2 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 ration and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
ration 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 1-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 ration. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
ration is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ration unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aroint and ration, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from ration 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 ration produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.