variations needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 342 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
variations is the highest-scoring word from variations, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 342 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in variations — and it is variations itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling variations turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aviations and variation, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in variations. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aviarist, aviation, aviators, ovaritis, variants, and vitrains, 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 variations produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with visitor. For points, the strongest plays are aviator, ovarian, savarin, travois, vanitas, variant, viators, virions, visitor, and vitrain — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling variations turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with raisin, trains, and vision. For points, the strongest plays are avians, avions, invars, navars, ravins, savant, savior, sovran, trivia, varias, varnas, viator, virion, and vision — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in variations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with irons, rains, riots, roast, saint, stain, and stair. For points, the strongest plays are arvos, avant, avast, avian, avion, aviso, invar, navar, novas, ravin, savin, savor, vairs, varas, varia, varna, vinas, vinos, visit, visor, and vista — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in variations produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, into, iron, rain, and rats. For points, the strongest plays are arvo, avos, navs, nova, tavs, vain, vair, vans, vara, vars, vasa, vast, vats, vina, vino, vins, visa, and vita — 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 variations turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, art, its, nor, not, and ran. For points, the strongest plays are ava, avo, nav, ova, tav, van, var, vas, vat, via, vin, and vis — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in variations. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are aa, ai, an, ar, as, at, in, is, it, na, no, oi, on, or, os, si, so, ta, ti, and to — each worth 2 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
variations 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record eleven senses for variations. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
variations is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing variations unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is variations, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from variations 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 variations produce 342 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.