restriction needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 629 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
restriction is the highest-scoring word from restriction, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 629 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in restriction — and it is restriction itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in restriction produces 3 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are criterions, tricotines, and trisection, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling restriction turns up 10 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are corneitis, cornetist, criterion, eroticist, striction, tortrices, tricornes, tricotine, and trisector, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restriction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stricter. For points, the strongest plays are centrist, citrines, citterns, cointers, contrite, cornetti, cornetts, corniest, cottiers, crinites, critters, crostini, inciters, noticers, osteitic, recision, resorcin, restrict, soricine, stenotic, stiction, stricter, strontic, tonetics, tricorne, and tricorns — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in restriction produces 85 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contest, corners, ironies, notices, section, and tiniest. For points, the strongest plays are cirrose, cistern, cistron, citrine, citrins, citrons, cittern, coiners, cointer, contest, corners, cornets, cornett, cornier, corries, cortins, cotters, cottier, cretins, cretons, crinite, critter, cronies, crosier, eosinic, eristic, erotics, incisor, inciter, incites, irenics, neritic, nicoise, noritic, noticer, notices, oneiric, orceins, orrices, recoins, rectors, retcons, scorner, scottie, section, sericin, soritic, tonetic, tricorn, tricots, and trisect — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling restriction turns up 133 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, corner, erotic, ironic, nicest, notice, and rotten. For points, the strongest plays are censor, centos, cestoi, citers, cities, citrin, citron, coiner, conies, contes, corers, corner, cornet, corrie, corset, cortin, cosier, cosine, coster, cotter, cretin, criers, crones, crores, erotic, escort, iciest, icones, incest, incise, incite, insect, ionics, irenic, ironic, nicest, nitric, noetic, notice, octets, orcein, orcins, orrice, oscine, otitic, recits, recoin, recons, rector, rectos, retcon, ricers, ricins, scorer, scoter, sector, steric, strict, tincts, tocsin, tonics, torics, trices, and tricot — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 151 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restriction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins, cones, cores, corns, cries, and irons. For points, the strongest plays are cento, cents, ceros, certs, cesti, cines, cions, cires, cirri, citer, cites, coins, coirs, cones, conte, corer, cores, corns, corse, coset, cosie, cotes, crest, crier, cries, crits, crone, crore, escot, etics, icier, icons, ionic, nicer, octet, oncet, ontic, orcin, recit, recon, recti, recto, ricer, rices, ricin, scent, scion, scone, score, scorn, since, sonic, stoic, tinct, tonic, torcs, toric, and trice — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in restriction produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, cons, core, corn, and cost. For points, the strongest plays are cent, cero, cert, cine, cion, cire, cist, cite, coin, coir, cone, coni, cons, core, corn, cors, cost, cote, cots, cris, crit, ecos, etic, ices, icon, nice, once, orcs, otic, recs, rice, rocs, scot, sect, sice, tecs, tics, and torc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling restriction turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, its, net, nor, not, and one. For points, the strongest plays are cis, con, cor, cos, cot, eco, ice, orc, rec, roc, sec, sic, soc, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in restriction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are en, er, es, et, in, is, it, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, te, 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.
2 twelve-letter words can be made using all the letters in restriction plus one additional letter.
restriction 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 three senses for restriction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
restriction is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing restriction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is restriction, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from restriction 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 restriction produce 629 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 3 ten-letter words, 10 nine-letter words, 36 eight-letter words, 85 seven-letter words, 133 six-letter words, 151 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.