mattered needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mattered is the highest-scoring word from mattered, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in mattered — and it is mattered itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mattered produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with treated. For points, the strongest play is remated — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mattered turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dreamt and matter. For points, 9 words tie at 9 points, including dreamt, marted and matted.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mattered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, dream and meter. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including armed, dream and adeem.
Rearranging the letters in mattered produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including made, dame and deem.
Unscrambling mattered turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mattered. 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.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in mattered plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mattered 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.
mattered 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.
mattered is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mattered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is mattered, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from mattered 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 mattered produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.