Hidden inside session sit essoins, osseins, and session, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SOSENIS, ISENOSS or SSIENOS and you get the same 7 letters as SESSION: so the words from SESSION listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
essoins, osseins, and session tie for the highest Scrabble score from session at 7 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in session: two come from rearranging its letters, and session itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with session. For points, the strongest plays are essoins, osseins, and session — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in session. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noise and noses. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including noise, noses and eosin.
Rearranging the letters in session produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nose, ones, sins, and sons. For points, 12 words tie at 4 points, including nose, ones and sins.
Unscrambling session turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with one, sin, and son. For points, 16 words tie at 3 points, including one, sin and son.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in session. If a familiar word is all you need, start with in, is and no. For points, 12 words tie at 2 points, including in, is and no.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in session plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in session and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
session 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 1-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 session. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
session is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing session unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are essoins, osseins, and session, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from session 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 session produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.