madame needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
madame is the highest-scoring word from madame, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in madame — and it is madame itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling madame produces exactly one five-letter word: madam. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in madame. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, and me. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in madame plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in madame 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.
madame 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 one sense for madame. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
madame is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing madame unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is madame, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from madame 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 madame produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 1 five-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.