attempt needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attempt is the highest-scoring word from attempt, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in attempt — and it is attempt itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attempt. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: tempt, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in attempt produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mate, meat, tape, team, and temp. For points, the strongest plays are tamp and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling attempt turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, ate, eat, map, met, pea, and pet. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attempt. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, pa, and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in attempt plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in attempt 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.
attempt 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 four senses for attempt. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
attempt is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attempt unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is attempt, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from attempt 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 attempt produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.