Hidden inside urination sit ruination and urination, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ruination and urination tie for the highest Scrabble score from urination at 9 points. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in urination: one comes from rearranging its letters, and urination itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ruination and urination, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling urination produces exactly one seven-letter word: rainout. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling urination turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nation. For points, 14 words tie at 6 points, including nation, anoint and aroint.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in urination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with train and union. For points, 18 words tie at 5 points, including train, union and anion.
Rearranging the letters in urination produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aunt, auto and into. For points, 48 words tie at 4 points, including aunt, auto and into.
Unscrambling urination turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and art. For points, 41 words tie at 3 points, including air, ant and art.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in urination. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and in. For points, 17 words tie at 2 points, including an, at and in.
5 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in urination plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in urination 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.
urination 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 one sense for urination. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
urination is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing urination unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ruination and urination, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from urination 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 urination produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.