comforted 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, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
comforted is the highest-scoring word from comforted, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in comforted — and it is comforted itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in comforted produces 3 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: comfort, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling comforted turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doctor, forced, formed, and rooted. For points, the strongest plays are deform, forced, and formed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comforted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with force, mooed, motor, and rodeo. For points, the strongest play is fremd — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in comforted produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, come and cord. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including form, from and coft.
Unscrambling comforted turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, fed and for. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in comforted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me and of. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in comforted 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.
comforted 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 comforted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
comforted is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing comforted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is comforted, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from comforted 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 comforted produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.