Hidden inside abused sit abused and daubes, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 67 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
abused and daubes tie for the highest Scrabble score from abused at 9 points. The top 10 of 67 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in abused: one comes from rearranging its letters, and abused itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abused. For points, the strongest plays are abused and daubes — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abused. If a familiar word is all you need, start with abuse and based. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including based, bauds and beads.
Rearranging the letters in abused produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bade, base and beds. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including bade, beds and buds.
Unscrambling abused turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, bad and bed. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including bad, bed and bud.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in abused. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, be, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ab, ba, and be — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
11 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in abused plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in abused and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
abused 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for abused. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
abused is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing abused unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are abused and daubes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from abused 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 abused produce 67 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.