dated needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 7 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dated is the highest-scoring word from dated, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in dated — and it is dated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in dated and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
dated 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in dated carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for dated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
dated is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dated, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dated 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 dated produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.