debarment needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 347 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
debarment is the highest-scoring word from debarment, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 347 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in debarment — and it is debarment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling debarment produces exactly one eight-letter word: bantered. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in debarment produces 15 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 beadmen, bedeman, bedmate and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling debarment turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beaten, debate and dreamt. For points, the strongest plays are badmen, beamed, bedamn, and bermed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in debarment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, beard and brand. For points, the strongest play is embed — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in debarment produces 108 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, bade and band. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including beam, barm and bema.
Unscrambling debarment turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, ant and are. For points, the strongest play is bam — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in debarment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including am, be and me.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in debarment plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in debarment 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.
debarment 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for debarment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
debarment is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing debarment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is debarment, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from debarment 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 debarment produce 347 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 15 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 108 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.