Hidden inside reduction sit introduce and reduction, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 443 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
introduce and reduction tie for the highest Scrabble score from reduction at 12 points. The top 10 of 443 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reduction: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reduction itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with introduce. For points, the strongest plays are introduce and reduction — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reduction. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centroid, cornuted, decurion, doctrine, eduction, inductor, outcried, reinduct, and trounced, 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 reduction produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counted, counter, noticed, and routine. For points, the strongest plays are conduit, cordite, counted, courted, crunode, ctenoid, deontic, eductor, inducer, noctuid, and noticed — 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 reduction turns up 65 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, credit, direct, editor, erotic, notice, and ruined. For points, the strongest plays are cinder, codein, coedit, coined, corned, credit, direct, docent, doucer, induce, induct, nordic, triced, truced, and uniced — 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 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reduction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with count, court, cried, cured, cuter, cutie, and diner. For points, the strongest plays are cider, cited, coden, coder, coned, cored, coted, coude, credo, cried, crude, crudo, cured, decor, dicer, dicot, douce, dunce, duroc, edict, educt, 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 reduction produces 132 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cone, cord, core, and corn. For points, the strongest plays are cedi, code, coed, cord, cred, crud, cued, curd, deco, dice, duce, duci, duct, 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 reduction turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, cut, die, dot, due, and end. For points, the strongest plays are cod, cud, 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reduction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are 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.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reduction plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reduction 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.
reduction 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 three senses for reduction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
reduction is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reduction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are introduce and reduction, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reduction 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 reduction produce 443 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 65 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 132 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.