redaction needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 605 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
redaction is the highest-scoring word from redaction, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 605 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in redaction — and it is redaction itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redaction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reaction. For points, the strongest plays are actioned, cartoned, catenoid, centroid, ceratoid, dicentra, doctrine, notecard, and tornadic — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in redaction produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with certain, noticed, and trained. For points, the strongest plays are acorned, cairned, carotid, codeina, cordate, cordite, ctenoid, dancier, deontic, noticed, redcoat, tacnode, and tranced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling redaction turns up 112 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, carton, coined, credit, dancer, direct, and donate. For points, the strongest plays are acnode, anodic, cadent, candor, canoed, canted, cardio, cardon, caried, carted, cedarn, cinder, cnidae, coated, codeia, codein, coedit, coined, corned, craned, crated, credit, dacite, dacoit, dacron, dancer, deacon, decani, decant, direct, docent, nacred, nordic, rancid, redact, traced, and triced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 157 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redaction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, actor, adore, aired, cared, cater, and cried. For points, the strongest plays are acned, acred, acrid, acted, arced, cadet, cadre, caird, caned, canid, cared, cedar, cider, cited, cnida, coden, coder, coned, cored, coted, credo, cried, dance, daric, decan, decor, dicer, dicot, dicta, edict, nicad, octad, raced, and riced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in redaction produces 168 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, card, care, cart, cent, coat, and code. For points, the strongest plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, caid, card, cedi, coda, code, coed, cord, cred, dace, deco, dice, iced, and odic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling redaction turns up 92 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, aid, air, and, ant, are, and art. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — 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 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redaction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, do, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
11 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in redaction plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in redaction 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.
redaction 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 two senses for redaction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
redaction is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redaction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is redaction, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from redaction 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 redaction produce 605 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 17 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 112 six-letter words, 157 five-letter words, 168 four-letter words, 92 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.