Unscramble AUCTION to get 117 words. AUCTION itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. AUCTION has 1 anagram here, CAUTION, scoring 9 like AUCTION itself. Among the shorter answers, 8 reach 8 points, ACTION, CATION and TUNICA among them. The 7 letters split into 4 vowels and 3 consonants. AUCTION as a single 7-tile play makes 59 in Scrabble, 9 plus the 50 bonus, and 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
CAINTUO unscrambles to AUCTION: these are all the words its letters make. Looking for cationu, unoitac, oncuiat, acounti, icauton, taunico, catioun, autocin, cantiou or uatonic? They use the same letters as AUCTION, so the words on this page are their answers too.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from AUCTION by length: 2 with 7 letters, 8 with 6, 20 with 5, 38 with 4, 32 with 3 and 17 with 2.
Among 38 4-letter words from AUCTION, the top score is 6, reached by 18. AUTO, UNIT and ANTI are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of AUCTION but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with AU · ending in ON · all 7-letter words
The meaning of AUCTION, and of the 7 strongest answers in its letters.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
AUCTION works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| AUCTION itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 117) | 90 | 117 | 84 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: ANICUT, NAUTIC, NOCTUA, ACTON, CONIA, COUTA, INCUT, ATOC, CITO, COIT, CUIT, OCTA and 14 more, 26 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CUNIT, UNICA, TAUON, OUTA, TIAN, UNI and OI, 7 in all. Not in Scrabble US: CUNT.
These 10 words take every letter of AUCTION plus a single extra one.