component needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 130 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
component is the highest-scoring word from component, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 130 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in component — and it is component itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling component produces exactly one eight-letter word: contempo. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in component produces 5 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 compone and compote, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling component turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is coempt, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in component. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are compo and compt, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in component produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, come and cone. For points, the strongest play is comp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling component turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cop and men. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including cop, mop and cep.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in component. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, no, on, and to. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mo.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in component plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in component 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.
component 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 5-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for component. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
component is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing component unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is component, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from component 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 component produce 130 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.