publications needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 1235 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
publications is the highest-scoring word from publications, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 1235 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in publications — and it is publications itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eleven-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in publications. No common everyday answer stands out among these eleven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is publication, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in publications produces 3 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is bioplastic, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling publications turns up 16 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are publicans and publicist, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in publications. If a familiar word is all you need, start with auctions and politics. For points, the strongest plays are publican, suboptic, and subtopic — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in publications produces 134 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actions, auction, consult, plastic, and publics. For points, the strongest plays are biopics, biopsic, bioptic, and publics — 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 publications turns up 205 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with action, cabins, casino, catsup, coitus, counts, and cousin. For points, the strongest plays are biopic and public — 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 310 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in publications. If a familiar word is all you need, start with about, aunts, autos, bacon, bails, baits, and basic. For points, the strongest play is pubic — 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 publications produces 317 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, also, ants, anus, aunt, auto, and bail. For points, the strongest plays are banc, baps, blip, bloc, bops, pacs, pact, pica, pics, pubs, scab, scop, scup, cabs, capo, caps, clap, clip, clop, club, cobs, copi, cops, coup, cubs, cups, and cusp — 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 publications turns up 155 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ant, ban, bat, bit, bun, and bus. For points, the strongest plays are bap, bop, cab, cap, cob, cop, cub, cup, pac, pic, and pub — 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 34 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in publications. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as, at, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, bi, bo, op, pa, pi, po, and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
publications 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 6-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 publications. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
publications is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing publications unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is publications, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from publications 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 publications produce 1235 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 2 eleven-letter words, 3 ten-letter words, 16 nine-letter words, 58 eight-letter words, 134 seven-letter words, 205 six-letter words, 310 five-letter words, 317 four-letter words, 155 three-letter words and 34 two-letter words.