malted needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 79 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
malted is the highest-scoring word from malted, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 79 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in malted — and it is malted itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealt, medal, and metal. For points, the strongest plays are lamed, mated, medal, and tamed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in malted produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deal, lame, late, lead, made, and male. For points, the strongest plays are dame, made, mead, and meld — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling malted turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, eat, lad, led, let, mad, and met. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in malted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 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 malted 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.
malted 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 malted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
malted is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing malted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is malted, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from malted 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 malted produce 79 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.