Hidden inside altered sit alerted, altered, related and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
alerted, altered, related and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from altered at 8 points. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in altered: three come from rearranging its letters, and altered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altered and related. For points, the strongest plays are alerted, altered, related, and treadle — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling altered turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealer, leader, and relate. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including dealer, leader and dartle.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with alert, alter and dealt. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including dealt, trade and alder.
Rearranging the letters in altered produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and deal. For points, 22 words tie at 5 points, including dare, date and deal.
Unscrambling altered turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including lad, led and red.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in altered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
19 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in altered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in altered and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
altered 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for altered. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
altered is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing altered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are alerted, altered, related, and treadle, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from altered 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 altered produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.