Hidden inside allocation sit allocation and locational, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 213 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
allocation and locational tie for the highest Scrabble score from allocation at 12 points. The top 10 of 213 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in allocation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and allocation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allocation and locational, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allocation turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are allantoic and collation, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allocation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with location. For points, the strongest plays are colonial, cotillon, and location — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in allocation produces 8 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 actinal, altcoin, ancilla and 3 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling allocation turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action and lotion. For points, 19 words tie at 8 points, including action, alcool and alnico.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allocation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with colon and local. For points, 23 words tie at 7 points, including colon, local and actin.
Rearranging the letters in allocation produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with call, coat and coin. For points, 31 words tie at 6 points, including call, coat and coin.
Unscrambling allocation turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, all and ant. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including act, can and cat.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in allocation. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in allocation plus one additional letter.
allocation 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for allocation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
allocation is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing allocation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are allocation and locational, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from allocation 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 allocation produce 213 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.