matched needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MTACHED, CHATMED or MCADETH and you get the same 7 letters as MATCHED: so the words from MATCHED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
matched is the highest-scoring word from matched, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in matched — and it is matched itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, cheat and death. For points, the strongest plays are mache and match — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in matched produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, came and chat. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, mach, and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling matched turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ate and cat. For points, the strongest plays are ham, hem, and meh — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in matched. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, ah and am. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in matched 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.
matched 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 1-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 matched. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
matched is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing matched unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is matched, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from matched 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 matched produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.