Unscramble DICTATION and you have 183 words, DICTATION itself among them: it scores 12 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. The 9 letters split into 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
D2I1C34T1A1T1I1O1N12
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Words from DICTATION by length: 1 with 9 letters, 3 with 8, 5 with 7, 13 with 6, 43 with 5, 53 with 4, 46 with 3 and 19 with 2.
43 5-letter words from DICTATION; 9 of them share the top score of 8. IDIOT, TITAN and ATTIC are everyday picks.
Of the 53 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DICTATION, 7 score 7 points, the group's best. ANTI, ICON and ACID are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of DICTATION for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 9-letter words: starting with DI · ending in ON · all 9-letter words
DICTATION first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DICTATION, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DICTATION itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 183) | 145 | 183 | 137 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: COTTID, DIACT, DINIC, ACTON, COND, CONIA, DICT, DOITIT, DOTANT, NOTITIA, AIDOI, ATOC and 26 more, 38 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CNIDA, DINO, NATTO, DAN, ODA, TIAN, DA and OI, 8 in all.
These 2 words take every letter of DICTATION plus a single extra one.