intermediate needs no unscrambling at all — the twelve-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 680 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
intermediate is the highest-scoring word from intermediate, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 680 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one twelve-letter word uses the letters in intermediate — and it is intermediate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intermediate produces exactly one eleven-letter word: determinate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in intermediate produces 2 valid ten-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is terminated, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling intermediate turns up 14 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with determine. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including determine, determent and detriment.
There are 38 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intermediate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with intimate, mattered, and remained. For points, 16 words tie at 11 points, including mattered, remained and admittee.
Rearranging the letters in intermediate produces 82 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered, martini and needier. For points, 24 words tie at 10 points, including amender, amidine and dementi.
Unscrambling intermediate turns up 144 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, attend and dreamt. For points, 34 words tie at 9 points, including admire, dreamt and maiden.
There are 146 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intermediate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed and aired. For points, 33 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and armed.
Rearranging the letters in intermediate produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and dare. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and made.
Unscrambling intermediate turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and air. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in intermediate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
4 thirteen-letter words can be made using all the letters in intermediate plus one additional letter.
intermediate 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 intermediate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
intermediate is the only twelve-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing intermediate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is intermediate, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from intermediate 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 intermediate produce 680 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 twelve-letter word, 1 eleven-letter word, 2 ten-letter words, 14 nine-letter words, 38 eight-letter words, 82 seven-letter words, 144 six-letter words, 146 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.