temptation needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 298 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
temptation is the highest-scoring word from temptation, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 298 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in temptation — and it is temptation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temptation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are impotent and ptomaine, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in temptation produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attempt and patient. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including attempt, maintop and pimento.
Unscrambling temptation turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with tampon. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including tampon, impone and optima.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temptation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meant, paint and piano. For points, the strongest plays are tempi, tempo, and tempt — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in temptation produces 93 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom and into. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including poem, temp and mope.
Unscrambling temptation turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, ant and ape. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including map, mop and amp.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temptation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and at. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in temptation plus one additional letter.
temptation 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 temptation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
temptation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing temptation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is temptation, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from temptation 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 temptation produce 298 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 93 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.