Hidden inside sectionals sit actionless, coastlines, and sectionals, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 990 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
actionless, coastlines, and sectionals tie for the highest Scrabble score from sectionals at 12 points. The top 10 of 990 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 ten-letter words hiding in sectionals: two come from rearranging its letters, and sectionals itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are actionless, coastlines, and sectionals, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling sectionals turns up 7 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are canistels, canoeists, cessation and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 37 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sectionals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolates and sections. For points, 27 words tie at 10 points, including sections, aconites and alnicoes.
Rearranging the letters in sectionals produces 111 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, casinos and castles. For points, 69 words tie at 9 points, including actions, casinos and castles.
Unscrambling sectionals turns up 200 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, aisles and aliens. For points, 104 words tie at 8 points, including action, casino and castle.
There are 270 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sectionals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sails, saint and sales. For points, 106 words tie at 7 points, including scale, scent and since.
Rearranging the letters in sectionals produces 235 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also and ants. For points, 73 words tie at 6 points, including acts, lice and nice.
Unscrambling sectionals turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant and ass. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and cat.
There are 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sectionals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 29 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
4 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in sectionals plus one additional letter.
sectionals 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 four senses for sectionals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
sectionals is one of three ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sectionals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are actionless, coastlines, and sectionals, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sectionals 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 sectionals produce 990 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 ten-letter words, 7 nine-letter words, 37 eight-letter words, 111 seven-letter words, 200 six-letter words, 270 five-letter words, 235 four-letter words, 98 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.