marquee needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
marquee is the highest-scoring word from marquee, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in marquee — and it is marquee itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in marquee. If a familiar word is all you need, start with queer. For points, the strongest plays are quare and queer — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in marquee 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 arum, emeu, mare and 4 more, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling marquee turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ear. For points, the strongest play is qua — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in marquee plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in marquee and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
marquee 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 marquee. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
marquee is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marquee unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is marquee, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from marquee 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 marquee produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 8 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.