Hidden inside calmed sit calmed and macled, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
calmed and macled tie for the highest Scrabble score from calmed at 11 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in calmed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and calmed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calmed. For points, the strongest plays are calmed and macled — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calmed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with camel and medal. For points, the strongest play is maced — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in calmed produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calm, came and deal. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including calm, came and acme.
Unscrambling calmed turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lad, led, and mad. For points, the strongest plays are cam and mac — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in calmed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
9 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in calmed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in calmed and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
calmed 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
calmed is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing calmed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are calmed and macled, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from calmed 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 calmed produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.