rejection needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rejection is the highest-scoring word from rejection, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in rejection — and it is rejection itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rejection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erection. For points, the strongest plays are ejection, injector, and reinject — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rejection produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ejector and rejoice, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rejection turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, entire and erotic. For points, the strongest plays are inject and reject — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rejection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, joint, nicer, and niece. For points, the strongest play is eject — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rejection produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, coin and cone. For points, the strongest plays are jeer, jeon, jete, and join — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling rejection turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, ice and jet. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including jet, jee and jin.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rejection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, it and no. For points, the strongest play is jo — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in rejection plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rejection and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
rejection 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 four senses for rejection. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
rejection is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rejection unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rejection, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rejection 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 rejection produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.