Hidden inside selection sit elections and selection, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 413 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
elections and selection tie for the highest Scrabble score from selection at 11 points. The top 10 of 413 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in selection: one comes from rearranging its letters, and selection itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: elections and selection, worth 11 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in selection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with election. For points, the strongest plays are centiles, cineoles, election, lections, seicento, and telsonic — 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 selection produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clients, license, notices, section, and silence. For points, the strongest plays are cenotes, centile, cineole, cineols, citoles, clients, coesite, enclose, entices, inclose, lectins, lection, license, licente, notices, sectile, section, selenic, senecio, silence, and stencil — 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 selection turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with client, clones, closet, elects, listen, nicest, and nieces. For points, the strongest plays are cenote, centos, cestoi, cineol, citole, client, clines, clones, closet, colies, colins, conies, contes, cosine, eclose, elects, enolic, entice, icones, incels, incest, insect, lectin, lentic, locies, nicest, nicols, nieces, noetic, notice, oscine, select, stelic, telcos, tocsin, and tonics — 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 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in selection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, clone, close, coins, cones, elect, and lines. For points, the strongest plays are ceils, celts, cense, cento, cents, cesti, cetes, cines, cions, cites, cline, clits, clone, clons, close, clots, coils, coins, coles, colin, colts, cones, conte, coset, cosie, cotes, elect, escot, etics, icons, incel, locie, locis, lotic, nicol, niece, oleic, oncet, ontic, scene, scent, scion, scone, since, slice, socle, sonic, stoic, telco, telic, and tonic — 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 selection produces 118 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin, cone, cons, cost, else, and ices. For points, the strongest plays are cees, ceil, cels, celt, cent, cete, cine, cion, cist, cite, clit, clon, clot, coil, coin, cole, cols, colt, cone, coni, cons, cost, cote, cots, ecos, etic, ices, icon, lice, loci, locs, nice, once, otic, scot, sect, sice, tecs, and tics — 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 selection turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice, its, let, lie, lit, and lot. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cel, cis, col, con, cos, cot, eco, ice, loc, 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 selection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, it, no, on, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are el, en, es, et, in, is, it, li, lo, ne, no, oe, oi, on, os, 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in selection plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in selection 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.
selection 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 five senses for selection. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
selection is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing selection unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are elections and selection, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from selection 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 selection produce 413 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 118 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.