Hidden inside amnestied sit amnestied and dementias, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 548 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amnestied and dementias tie for the highest Scrabble score from amnestied at 12 points. The top 10 of 548 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in amnestied: one comes from rearranging its letters, and amnestied itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amnestied and dementias, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amnestied. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dementia, dementis, mediants and 4 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in amnestied produces 42 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with instead, maidens, meanest, and steamed. For points, 19 words tie at 10 points, including maidens, steamed and damnest.
Unscrambling amnestied turns up 84 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admits, denies and maiden. For points, 35 words tie at 9 points, including admits, maiden and adeems.
There are 151 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amnestied. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed and aside. For points, 34 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and damns.
Rearranging the letters in amnestied produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and amen. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including made, maid and mind.
Unscrambling amnestied turns up 77 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amnestied. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in amnestied plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amnestied and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
amnestied 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.
amnestied is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amnestied unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are amnestied and dementias, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from amnestied 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 amnestied produce 548 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 42 seven-letter words, 84 six-letter words, 151 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.