moderated needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 268 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moderated is the highest-scoring word from moderated, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 268 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in moderated — and it is moderated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moderated produces exactly one eight-letter word: moderate. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moderated produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dreamed. For points, the strongest plays are demoted and dreamed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling moderated turns up 39 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adored, dreamt, madder, meteor, remote, and traded. For points, the strongest plays are demode, demoed, madder, and modder — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, armed, dared, dated, dream, meter, and trade. For points, the strongest play is domed — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in moderated produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with atom, dare, date, dead, dear, deed, and deer. For points, the strongest plays are dame, deem, deme, demo, derm, dome, dorm, dram, made, mead, meed, and mode — 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 moderated turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, are, arm, art, ate, dad, and dot. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dom, mad, med, and mod — 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 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderated. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, at, do, me, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in moderated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in moderated and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
moderated 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.
moderated is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moderated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is moderated, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from moderated 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 moderated produce 268 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 39 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.