employed needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
employed is the highest-scoring word from employed, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in employed — and it is employed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling employed produces exactly one seven-letter word: employe. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling employed turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeply. For points, the strongest play is yomped — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in employed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with model. For points, the strongest plays are mopey and myope — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in employed produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, mode, mole, peed, peel, poem, and pole. For points, the strongest plays are mopy and yomp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling employed turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dye, eye, led, mop, old, pee, and yep. For points, the strongest plays are ply, pye, yep, and yom — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in employed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, my, oy, and yo. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in employed and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
employed 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 two senses for employed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
employed is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing employed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is employed, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from employed 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 employed produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 9 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.