Hidden inside assertion sit assertion, notarises, and senoritas, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 676 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
assertion, notarises, and senoritas tie for the highest Scrabble score from assertion at 9 points. The top 10 of 676 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in assertion: two come from rearranging its letters, and assertion 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 assertion, notarises, and senoritas, 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 17 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assertion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with senators. For points, the strongest plays are arsonist, artiness, assentor, astonies, erasions, notaries, notarise, oestrins, retsinas, santeros, senators, senorita, sensoria, stainers, starnose, stearins, and treasons — 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 assertion produces 57 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nastier, reasons, senator, seniors, and stories. For points, the strongest plays are anestri, antsier, aorists, aristos, aroints, arsines, artsies, atoners, atonies, entasis, erasion, estrins, inserts, instars, nastier, nasties, nestors, norites, nosiest, oestrin, orients, osetras, ossetra, ratines, rations, reasons, retains, retinas, retsina, rosiest, santero, santirs, sarnies, sarsnet, satires, satoris, seitans, senator, seniors, senoras, sestina, sinters, sonsier, sorites, sorties, stainer, stearin, stoners, stonier, stories, strains, strines, tansies, tensors, tisanes, treason, and trioses — 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 assertion turns up 138 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noises, raises, reason, resist, roasts, saints, and sanest. For points, the strongest plays are airest, anises, antres, aorist, ariose, arisen, arises, aristo, aroint, arseno, arsine, arsino, arsons, artsie, assent, assert, assort, astern, asters, atoner, atones, enosis, eosins, essoin, estrin, inerts, insert, insets, instar, inters, intros, irones, nestor, niters, nitres, nitros, noesis, noises, norias, norite, nosier, noters, oaters, oatier, onsets, orates, orient, ornate, osetra, osiers, ossein, raises, ratine, ration, ratios, reason, resins, resist, resits, retain, retina, rinses, roasts, rosets, rosins, rostis, saints, sanest, sanies, sansei, santir, santos, sarins, sarnie, sarsen, satins, satire, satori, season, seisor, seitan, senior, senora, senors, sensor, serais, serins, serosa, setons, siesta, sinter, sirens, sister, sistra, sitars, snares, snores, snorts, sonars, sonsie, sorest, sortes, sortie, stains, stairs, stanes, stares, steins, stenos, sterna, sterns, stoner, stones, stores, strain, striae, strine, tasers, tassie, tenias, tenors, tensor, terais, tineas, tisane, toners, tonier, tories, torses, tosser, trains, triens, trines, triose, tronas, trones, tsores, and tsoris — 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 188 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assertion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roast, roses, saint, saner, seats, siren, and sites. For points, the strongest plays are roans, roast, roses, roset, rosin, rosti, rotas, rotes, rotis, sains, saint, saner, sanes, santo, sarin, saris, saros, sasin, sates, satin, satis, sears, seats, senor, sensa, senti, sents, serai, serin, seton, sines, siren, sires, sitar, sites, snare, snits, snore, snort, snots, soars, sonar, sones, soras, sores, sorns, sorta, sorts, stain, stair, stane, stans, stare, stars, stein, steno, stern, sties, stirs, stoae, stoai, stoas, stone, store, stria, tains, tares, tarns, taros, tarsi, taser, tases, tasse, tasso, tears, teins, tenia, tenor, terai, terns, aeons, airns, airts, anise, antes, antis, antre, arise, arose, arses, arsis, arson, asset, aster, astir, atone, earns, easts, entia, eosin, etnas, inert, inros, inset, inter, intro, iotas, irate, irone, irons, nares, naris, nates, nears, neats, neist, nerts, nests, niter, nites, nitre, nitro, noirs, noise, noria, noris, noses, noter, notes, oases, oasis, oasts, oaten, oater, onset, orate, ornis, osier, ossia, ostia, rains, raise, ranis, rants, rases, rates, ratio, ratos, reais, reins, renos, rents, resat, resin, resit, rests, retia, riant, rinse, riots, risen, rises, rites, tians, tiers, tinea, tines, tires, tiros, toeas, toner, tones, toras, tores, torse, torsi, tosas, train, trans, trass, tress, tries, trine, trios, trois, trona, trone, and tsars — 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 assertion produces 160 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants, arts, near, neat, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are aeon, aero, ains, airn, airs, airt, aits, anes, anis, ante, anti, ants, ares, arie, aros, arse, arts, ates, naes, naoi, naos, nare, near, neat, ness, nest, nets, nite, nits, noes, noir, nori, nose, nota, note, oars, oast, oats, ones, ores, orts, osar, oses, ossa, rain, rais, rani, rant, rase, rate, rato, rats, rein, reis, reno, rent, rest, rets, rias, rins, riot, rise, rite, roan, roes, rose, rota, rote, roti, rots, sain, sane, sans, sari, sate, sati, sear, seas, seat, seis, sent, sera, sers, seta, sets, sine, sins, sire, sirs, site, sits, snit, snot, soar, sone, sons, sora, sore, sori, sorn, sort, sots, sris, stan, star, stir, stoa, earn, ears, east, eats, eons, eras, erns, eros, erst, ests, etas, etna, inro, into, ions, iota, ires, iron, tain, tans, taos, tare, tarn, taro, tars, tase, tass, tear, teas, tein, tens, tern, tian, tier, ties, tine, tins, tire, tiro, toea, toes, tone, tons, tora, tore, tori, torn, tors, tosa, toss, tres, trio, and tsar — 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 assertion turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant, are, art, ass, ate, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ain, air, ais, ait, ane, ani, ant, are, aro, ars, art, ass, ate, ats, ear, eat, ens, eon, era, ern, ers, ess, est, eta, ins, ion, ire, its, nae, net, nit, nor, nos, not, oar, oat, oes, one, ons, ora, ore, ors, ort, ose, rai, ran, ras, rat, rei, res, ret, ria, rin, roe, rot, sae, san, sat, sea, sei, sen, ser, set, sin, sir, sis, sit, son, sos, sot, sri, tae, tan, tao, tar, tas, tea, ten, tes, tie, tin, tis, toe, ton, and tor — 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assertion. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ae, ai, an, ar, as, at, en, er, es, et, in, is, it, na, ne, no, oe, oi, on, or, os, re, si, so, ta, te, 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.
15 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in assertion plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in assertion 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.
assertion 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 1-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 assertion. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
assertion is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assertion unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assertion, notarises, and senoritas, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from assertion 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 assertion produce 676 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 17 eight-letter words, 57 seven-letter words, 138 six-letter words, 188 five-letter words, 160 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.