amazon needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
amazon is the highest-scoring word from amazon, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in amazon — and it is amazon itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in amazon produces 8 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are azan, azon, and zona, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in amazon. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, no, and on. For points, the strongest play is za — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in amazon plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in amazon 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.
amazon 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 four senses for amazon. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
amazon is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing amazon unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is amazon, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from amazon 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 amazon produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 8 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.