Hidden inside assumed sit assumed and medusas, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SAMUSED, SUMESAD or SSUMADE and you get the same 7 letters as ASSUMED: so the words from ASSUMED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
assumed and medusas tie for the highest Scrabble score from assumed at 10 points. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in assumed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and assumed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with assumed. For points, the strongest plays are assumed and medusas — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assumed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including dames, dumas and mauds.
Rearranging the letters in assumed produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with made, mass and mess. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including made, muds and dame.
Unscrambling assumed turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ass and due. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, mud and dam.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in assumed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in assumed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in assumed 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.
assumed 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 assumed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
assumed is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing assumed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are assumed and medusas, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from assumed 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 assumed produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.