Unscramble NOMINATION to get 139 words. NOMINATION itself is a real word: 12 points on a Scrabble board, 16 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter word is MONITION, 10 points. 10 letters: 5 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
Counting the words from NOMINATION by length: 1 with 10 letters, 1 with 8, 1 with 7, 13 with 6, 19 with 5, 44 with 4, 41 with 3 and 19 with 2. None has 9 letters.
There is a single one of the 8-letter words made with NOMINATION letters: MONITION, 10 points.
AMOTION is the only one of the 7-letter words in NOMINATION; it scores 9 points.
Of the 44 4-letter words from NOMINATION, 23 score 6 points, the group's best. MAIN, ANTI and MINI are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of NOMINATION but one, change that one, and you get:
More 10-letter words: starting with NO · ending in ON · all 10-letter words
NOMINATION first, then short meanings for the 7 best-scoring answers.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
NOMINATION 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| NOMINATION itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 139) | 109 | 139 | 100 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
30 of the 139 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: MONTAN, MANTO, TAMIN, TIMON, TOMIA, MINO, MOAI, MOIT, MONA, MOOI, MOTI, TOMO and 18 more. 9 of the 139 answers are missing from Words With Friends*: AMNIO, MANI, MOI, OMA, NANO, NONI, TIAN, ONO and OI.
Each word below uses all the letters of NOMINATION and one more.