ululation needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ululation is the highest-scoring word from ululation, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in ululation — and it is ululation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in ululation produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are outlain and ululant, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ululation turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are latino, lintol, lunula, and talion, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ululation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with until. For points, the strongest plays are allot, aloin, atoll, llano, notal, talon, tauon, tolan, tonal, unlit, and until — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in ululation produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto, into, lion, loan, nail, and tail. For points, the strongest plays are alit, alto, anil, anti, aunt, auto, into, iota, lain, lati, latu, lilo, lilt, lino, lint, lion, litu, loan, loin, lota, loti, lout, luau, lulu, luna, lunt, nail, naoi, nill, noil, nota, null, olla, outa, tail, tain, tali, tall, tian, till, toil, tola, toll, tolu, tuna, ulan, ulna, unai, unau, unit, and unto — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling ululation turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with all, ant, ill, lit, lot, not, and nut. For points, the strongest plays are ail, ain, ait, all, alt, ani, ant, ill, ion, lat, lin, lit, lot, lun, nil, nit, not, nut, oat, oil, out, tan, tao, tau, til, tin, ton, tui, tun, ulu, uni, and uta — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ululation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, in, it, no, on, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ai, al, an, at, in, it, la, li, lo, na, no, nu, oi, on, ta, ti, to, un, and ut — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in ululation plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in ululation 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.
ululation 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for ululation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
ululation is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ululation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ululation, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ululation 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 ululation produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.