Hidden inside margined sit dreaming, margined, and midrange, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 311 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dreaming, margined, and midrange tie for the highest Scrabble score from margined at 12 points. The top 10 of 311 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in margined: two come from rearranging its letters, and margined itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dreaming. For points, the strongest plays are dreaming, margined, and midrange — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in margined produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reading. For points, the strongest plays are germina, inarmed, mangier, and reaming — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling margined turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, danger and daring. For points, the strongest plays are degami, grimed, and imaged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 67 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in margined. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aired and anger. For points, the strongest plays are gamed and midge — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in margined produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, amen and damn. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and game.
Unscrambling margined turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid and aim. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in margined. 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.
3 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in margined plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in margined and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
margined 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
margined is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing margined unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dreaming, margined, and midrange, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from margined 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 margined produce 311 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 67 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.