attempted needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 108 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
attempted is the highest-scoring word from attempted, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 108 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in attempted — and it is attempted itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in attempted produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with attempt and tempted. For points, the strongest play is tempted — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling attempted turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with petted. For points, the strongest plays are tamped and temped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attempted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with taped and tempt. For points, the strongest play is amped — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in attempted produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deep and made. For points, the strongest play is damp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling attempted turns up 34 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, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in attempted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, at, and me. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
Swap a single tile in attempted 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.
attempted 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 one sense for attempted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
attempted is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing attempted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is attempted, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from attempted 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 attempted produce 108 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.