amputees needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amputees is the highest-scoring word from amputees, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in amputees — and it is amputees itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in amputees produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are amputee, meetups, and metepas, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling amputees turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are meetup, metepa, and septum, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 41 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amputees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, mates and meats. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including stamp, temps and pumas.
Rearranging the letters in amputees produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, ease and east. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including maps, temp and amps.
Unscrambling amputees turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate and eat. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, pam, and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amputees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as and at. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in amputees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amputees and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
amputees 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for amputees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
amputees is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amputees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is amputees, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from amputees 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 amputees produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 41 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.