validation 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, 223 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
validation is the highest-scoring word from validation, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 223 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in validation — and it is validation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in validation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aviation and lavation, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in validation produces 10 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 datival, invalid, vanload, and vidalia, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling validation turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with violin. For points, the strongest plays are avidin, navaid, vandal, and vidiot — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in validation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with avoid, idiot, and valid. For points, the strongest plays are avoid, davit, divan, divot, livid, valid, vanda, and viand — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in validation produces 71 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with data, dial, into, laid, land, lava, and lion. For points, the strongest plays are avid, diva, and void — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling validation turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, ant, dot, lad, lid, and lit. For points, the strongest play is vid — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in validation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, do, id, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, do, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in validation plus one additional letter.
validation 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 two senses for validation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
validation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing validation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is validation, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from validation 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 validation produce 223 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 71 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.