Hidden inside unions sit unions and unison, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unions and unison tie for the highest Scrabble score from unions at 6 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in unions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and unions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with unions. For points, the strongest plays are unions and unison — 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 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with union. For points, the strongest plays are nonis, nouns, and union — 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 unions produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nuns. For points, the strongest plays are inns, ions, noni, noun, nous, nuns, onus, sunn, and unis — 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 unions turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nun, sin, son, and sun. For points, the strongest plays are inn, ins, ion, nos, nun, nus, ons, sin, son, sou, sun, uni, and uns — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is, no, on, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are in, is, no, nu, oi, on, os, si, so, un, and us — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in unions and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
unions 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 thirteen senses for unions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
unions is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are unions and unison, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unions 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 unions produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.