Hidden inside inspection sit inceptions and inspection, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 418 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
inceptions and inspection tie for the highest Scrabble score from inspection at 14 points. The top 10 of 418 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in inspection: one comes from rearranging its letters, and inspection 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 inceptions and inspection, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling inspection turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is inception, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inspection. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coniines, cotinine, nicotine and 3 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in inspection produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with notices, section, and tension. For points, 8 words tie at 11 points, including entopic, incepts and inspect.
Unscrambling inspection turns up 76 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, copies and nicest. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including copies, topics and copens.
There are 103 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inspection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, coins and cones. For points, 13 words tie at 9 points, including spice, topic and copen.
Rearranging the letters in inspection produces 107 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nest, nets and nice. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including cops, epic and pecs.
Unscrambling inspection turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in inspection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and it. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in inspection plus one additional letter.
inspection 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 inspection. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
inspection is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing inspection unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are inceptions and inspection, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from inspection 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 inspection produce 418 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 76 six-letter words, 103 five-letter words, 107 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.