factions needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 220 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
factions is the highest-scoring word from factions, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 220 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in factions — and it is factions itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in factions produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions. For points, the strongest plays are confits and faction — 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 factions turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action and casino. For points, the strongest plays are confit, fiasco, and fincas — 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 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in factions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coast, coats, coins, facts, fatso, saint, and stain. For points, the strongest plays are coifs, facts, and finca — 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 factions produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants, cans, cast, cats, coat, and coin. For points, the strongest plays are cafs, coft, coif, fact, fico, fisc, and foci — 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 factions turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, can, cat, con, fan, and fat. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 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 factions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, if, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are fa, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in factions plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in factions and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
factions 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 two senses for factions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
factions is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing factions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is factions, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from factions 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 factions produce 220 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.