generation needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 478 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
generation is the highest-scoring word from generation, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 478 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in generation — and it is generation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling generation 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 argentine and tangerine, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in generation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entering and ignorant. For points, the strongest plays are antigene, entering, gratinee, ignorant, interage, negation, negatron, nitrogen, ringtone, and roentgen — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in generation produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earning, renting, and tearing. For points, the strongest plays are aginner, anteing, antigen, atoning, earning, engrain, genitor, gentian, goatier, granite, grannie, grantee, gratine, greaten, ingrate, integer, nearing, negater, negaton, negator, negroni, orating, ranting, reagent, reginae, regnant, renting, ringent, rontgen, tangier, tearing, tonnage, and treeing — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling generation turns up 86 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eating, engine, entire, ignore, intern, nation, and neater. For points, the strongest plays are aigret, anting, argent, earing, eating, engine, engirt, enrage, ergate, eringo, gainer, gaiter, gannet, garnet, garote, genera, gerent, ginner, gitano, goatee, goiter, goitre, gratin, ignore, ingate, innage, negate, nonage, noting, oaring, onager, onagri, orange, orgeat, origan, rating, reagin, regain, regent, regina, region, tagine, taring, teeing, tignon, toeing, toerag, tonger, toning, triage, and trigon — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in generation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, agree, anger, eaten, enter, giant, and grant. For points, the strongest plays are agene, agent, agone, agree, anger, argon, argot, eager, eagre, egret, ergot, garni, gater, gator, genet, genie, genoa, genre, genro, giant, giron, goner, gonia, gonna, grain, grant, grate, great, green, greet, griot, groan, groat, groin, ingot, orang, organ, ragee, range, regie, regna, reign, renig, retag, tango, targe, tenge, terga, tiger, tigon, tinge, togae, tonga, tragi, and trigo — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in generation produces 115 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earn, gain, gate, gene, goat, gone, and into. For points, the strongest plays are agee, ager, agin, agio, agon, agro, areg, eger, ergo, gaen, gain, gait, gane, gate, gean, gear, gene, gent, geta, gien, girn, giro, girt, gite, gnar, gnat, goat, goer, gone, gore, gran, grat, gree, grin, grit, grot, ogee, ogre, rage, ragi, rang, ring, tang, ting, toga, tong, trig, and trog — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling generation turns up 83 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, air, ant, are, art, and ate. For points, the strongest plays are age, ago, ego, eng, erg, gae, gan, gar, gat, gee, gen, get, gie, gin, git, goa, gor, got, nag, neg, nog, org, rag, reg, rig, tag, teg, and tog — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in generation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at, go, in, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are ag, gi, and go — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in generation plus one additional letter.
generation 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for generation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
generation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing generation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is generation, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from generation 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 generation produce 478 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 86 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 115 four-letter words, 83 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.