Hidden inside infraction sit infarction and infraction, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
infarction and infraction tie for the highest Scrabble score from infraction at 15 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in infraction: one comes from rearranging its letters, and infraction itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are infarction and infraction, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infraction. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are fraction and friction, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in infraction produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with contain and fiction. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including fiction, faction and frantic.
Unscrambling infraction turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cannot and carton. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including confit, factor and fracti.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infraction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actor, front, and train. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including craft, croft and farci.
Rearranging the letters in infraction produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cart, coat and coin. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including fact, foci and coft.
Unscrambling infraction turns up 56 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, air and ant. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in infraction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, at and if. For points, the strongest plays are fa, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in infraction plus one additional letter.
infraction 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 one sense for infraction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
infraction is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing infraction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are infarction and infraction, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from infraction 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 infraction produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.