cheapened needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cheapened is the highest-scoring word from cheapened, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in cheapened — and it is cheapened itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cheapened 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 cheeped and peached, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cheapened turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is peched, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheapened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheap, dance, peace, and peach. For points, the strongest plays are chape, cheap, cheep, and peach — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in cheapened produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cape, deep and each. For points, the strongest plays are caph, chap, and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling cheapened turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ape and can. For points, the strongest plays are hap, hep, pah, and peh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in cheapened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and an. For points, the strongest plays are ah, eh, ha, and he — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in cheapened 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.
cheapened 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.
cheapened is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing cheapened unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is cheapened, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from cheapened 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 cheapened produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.