distractions needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 957 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distractions is the highest-scoring word from distractions, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 957 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in distractions — and it is distractions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling distractions produces exactly one eleven-letter word: distraction. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in distractions produces 6 valid ten-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with traditions. For points, the strongest plays are dictations and indicators — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling distractions turns up 20 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distracts, districts, and tradition. For points, the strongest plays are actinoids, dictation, dictators, distracts, districts, indicator, indictors, and radionics — 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 62 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distractions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distract, district, and stations. For points, the strongest plays are acidosis, actinoid, carditis, carotids, costards, crinoids, diatonic, dictator, dictions, discants, distinct, distract, district, indictor, sadistic, sarcoids, sardonic, tornadic, triacids, and triadics — 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 distractions produces 100 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, artists, cartons, casinos, distant, racists, and raisins. For points, the strongest plays are candors, cardios, cardons, carotid, cirsoid, cissoid, conidia, costard, crinoid, dacoits, dacrons, dicasts, diction, discant, drastic, indicts, sarcoid, triacid, and triadic — 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 distractions turns up 185 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with across, action, actors, artist, attics, carton, and casino. For points, the strongest plays are anodic, asdics, cairds, candor, canids, cardio, cardon, dacoit, dacron, darics, dicast, dicots, discos, indict, nicads, nordic, octads, rancid, and scrods — 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 252 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distractions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with roads, roast, saint, sands, scars, sodas, and sorts. For points, the strongest plays are scads, scrod, sodic, acids, acrid, asdic, cadis, caids, caird, canid, cards, cnida, codas, cords, daric, dicot, dicta, disci, disco, discs, iodic, nicad, and octad — 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 distractions produces 209 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, airs, ants, arts, and cans. For points, the strongest plays are acid, cadi, cads, caid, card, coda, cods, cord, disc, docs, odic, and scad — 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 distractions turns up 97 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, air, and, ant, and art. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distractions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, do, id, and in. 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.
distractions 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 four senses for distractions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
distractions is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distractions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is distractions, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from distractions 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 distractions produce 957 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 6 ten-letter words, 20 nine-letter words, 62 eight-letter words, 100 seven-letter words, 185 six-letter words, 252 five-letter words, 209 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.