encouraged needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 485 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
encouraged is the highest-scoring word from encouraged, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 485 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in encouraged — and it is encouraged itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling encouraged produces exactly one nine-letter word: encourage. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encouraged. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ungraced, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in encouraged produces 29 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with courage. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including congaed, congeed and cordage.
Unscrambling encouraged turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, argued and around. For points, the strongest plays are cadger, codger, and graced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 121 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encouraged. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, agree and anger. For points, the strongest plays are cadge and caged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in encouraged produces 137 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, cage and card. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including cage, card and code.
Unscrambling encouraged turns up 93 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago and and. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including cad, cod and cog.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in encouraged. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and do. For points, 8 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and go.
encouraged 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for encouraged. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
encouraged is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing encouraged unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is encouraged, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from encouraged 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 encouraged produce 485 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 121 five-letter words, 137 four-letter words, 93 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.