255 words
Words ending in -sion
255 words end in -sion, and 84 of them are everyday words. The other spelling of the same sound, and the reason a -ION guess is not automatic.
- 255
- Words ending in -sion
- 84
- Everyday words among them
- 4 pts
- The ending -sion is worth this on its own
- 29 pts
- Best score, from HYPEREXTENSION
Using an ending rather than memorising words
This is the habit that separates players who find bonus words from players who do not. Stop looking at your rack as seven separate letters and start looking for a stem plus an ending. If -sion is sitting in your tiles, the real question is what 3 letter word the rest of your rack makes.
The same trick solves crosswords. Search the pattern ????sion and you will see how few options an ending really leaves.
The list
15 letter words
614 letter words
1113 letter words
25
comprehension 22
transgression 14
animadversion 19
anticollision 15
anticorrosion 15
antirecession 15
bioconversion 20
condescension 18
decompression 20
dispossession 16
interspersion 15
introgression 14
misimpression 19
nonaggression 15
nonconclusion 17
nonpossession 15
overexpansion 25
overextension 23
photoemission 20
postrecession 17
prepossession 17
pretelevision 18
pretermission 17
retrogression 14
subcommission 21
12 letter words
30
apprehension 19
circumcision 20
hypertension 20
intermission 14
transmission 14
circumfusion 21
decommission 19
derepression 15
dermabrasion 17
extraversion 22
extroversion 22
intercession 14
intersession 12
intromission 14
introversion 15
malocclusion 18
nonadmission 15
noninclusion 14
preadmission 17
prerecession 16
recommission 18
reconversion 17
reimpression 16
repercussion 16
repossession 14
reprehension 17
resubmission 16
retrocession 14
retroversion 15
supersession 14
11 letter words
2010 letter words
54
aggression 12
commission 16
compassion 16
compulsion 16
concession 14
conclusion 14
concussion 14
confession 15
conversion 15
depression 13
discussion 13
expression 19
impression 14
indecision 13
oppression 14
permission 14
persuasion 12
perversion 15
possession 12
procession 14
profession 15
propulsion 14
repression 12
succession 14
suspension 12
television 13
abscission 14
convulsion 15
declension 13
descension 13
digression 12
dismission 13
dispassion 13
dispersion 13
displosion 13
dissension 11
dissuasion 11
distension 11
ingression 11
misprision 14
percussion 14
precession 14
preclusion 14
prehension 15
pretension 12
protrusion 12
redivision 14
reemission 12
regression 11
reinvasion 13
rescission 12
submersion 14
submission 14
subversion 15
9 letter words
54
admission 12
ascension 11
collision 11
confusion 14
contusion 11
diffusion 16
dimension 12
diversion 13
exclusion 18
excursion 18
expansion 18
explosion 18
expulsion 18
extension 16
immersion 13
intrusion 9
obsession 11
precision 13
provision 14
recession 11
remission 11
revulsion 12
seclusion 11
accession 13
aspersion 11
collusion 11
concision 13
corrasion 11
corrosion 11
demission 12
egression 10
extrusion 16
impassion 13
implosion 13
impulsion 13
inclusion 11
incursion 11
intension 9
inversion 12
obtrusion 11
occlusion 13
perfusion 14
pervasion 14
prelusion 11
prevision 14
profusion 14
prolusion 11
recension 11
reclusion 11
recursion 11
repulsion 11
reversion 12
secession 11
suffusion 15
8 letter words
32
aversion 11
cohesion 13
decision 11
delusion 9
derision 9
division 12
emission 10
envision 11
illusion 8
incision 10
invasion 11
occasion 12
abrasion 10
adhesion 12
affusion 14
allusion 8
avulsion 11
eclosion 10
effusion 14
emersion 10
emulsion 10
eversion 11
evulsion 11
excision 17
infusion 11
inhesion 11
omission 10
recision 10
revision 11
scansion 10
scission 10
sponsion 10