Hidden inside conversation sit conservation and conversation, twelve-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1561 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
conservation and conversation tie for the highest Scrabble score from conversation at 17 points. The top 10 of 1561 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 twelve-letter words hiding in conversation: one comes from rearranging its letters, and conversation itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with conversation. For points, the strongest plays are conservation and conversation — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conversation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coinventors, covenantors, overactions, and revocations, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in conversation produces 17 valid ten-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with containers. For points, the strongest plays are coinventor, coinvestor, conversant, conversion, covenantor, evocations, nonvectors, novocaines, overaction, and revocation — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling conversation turns up 52 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with container, inventors, and reactions. For points, the strongest plays are coinvents, connivers, contrives, convenors, covenants, evocation, evocators, invocates, navicerts, nonactive, nonvector, novocaine, novocains, overcoats, vasotocin, veronicas, vocations, and vorticose — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 107 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conversation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ancestor, cartoons, contains, converts, instance, inventor, and investor. For points, the strongest plays are centavos, coinvent, coinvest, conative, conniver, connives, contrive, convenor, convents, converso, converts, corvinas, covaries, covenant, evictors, evocator, invocate, navicert, novocain, overacts, overcast, overcoat, varicose, veronica, vesicant, vocation, and vortices — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in conversation produces 212 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, ancient, cartons, cartoon, certain, coaster, and contain. For points, the strongest plays are actives, avocets, caverns, cavorts, centavo, connive, convent, convert, corvets, corvina, corvine, costive, coverts, covines, cravens, evictor, novices, octaves, octavos, overact, ovonics, varices, vectors, venatic, victors, viscera, and voicers — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling conversation turns up 345 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, active, actors, cannot, carton, carves, and casino. For points, the strongest plays are active, carven, carves, cavern, cavers, cavies, cavort, civets, convos, corves, corvet, covens, covers, covert, covets, covine, covins, craven, craves, avocet, evicts, novice, octave, octavo, ovisac, ovonic, scrive, varecs, vector, vesica, vicars, victor, vincas, voicer, and voices — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 377 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in conversation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, cares, carts, carve, cater, caves, and cents. For points, the strongest plays are carve, caver, caves, cavie, civet, convo, coven, cover, coves, covet, covin, crave, varec, vatic, vicar, vices, vinca, voces, voice, and evict — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in conversation produces 286 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, airs, ants, arts, cans, care, and cars. For points, the strongest plays are cave, cove, vacs, and vice — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling conversation turns up 130 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air, ant, are, art, ate, and can. For points, the strongest play is vac — worth 8 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 conversation. 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.
2 thirteen-letter words can be made using all the letters in conversation plus one additional letter.
conversation 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 one sense for conversation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
conversation is one of two twelve-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing conversation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are conservation and conversation, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from conversation 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 conversation produce 1561 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 twelve-letter words, 5 eleven-letter words, 17 ten-letter words, 52 nine-letter words, 107 eight-letter words, 212 seven-letter words, 345 six-letter words, 377 five-letter words, 286 four-letter words, 130 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.