Hidden inside sedation sit astonied and sedation, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 359 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
astonied and sedation tie for the highest Scrabble score from sedation at 9 points. The top 10 of 359 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in sedation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sedation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are astonied and sedation, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in sedation produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donates and instead. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including donates, instead and anodise.
Unscrambling sedation turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donate. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including donate, adonis and anodes.
There are 93 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sedation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dates and diets. For points, 54 words tie at 6 points, including aside, dates and diets.
Rearranging the letters in sedation produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants and date. For points, 61 words tie at 5 points, including aids, date and dies.
Unscrambling sedation turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and and. For points, 27 words tie at 4 points, including ads, aid and and.
There are 31 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sedation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, 7 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and id.
22 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in sedation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in sedation and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
sedation 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 1-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 sedation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
sedation is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sedation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are astonied and sedation, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sedation 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 sedation produce 359 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 93 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 31 two-letter words.