moderately needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 548 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moderately is the highest-scoring word from moderately, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 548 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in moderately — and it is moderately itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderately. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are motleyer and remotely, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in moderately produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altered and related. For points, the strongest play is meadery — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moderately turns up 78 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealer, dreamt and leader. For points, the strongest plays are dreamy, medley, melody, and remedy — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 130 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderately. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, alert and alter. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including dormy, emyde and madly.
Rearranging the letters in moderately produces 177 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with army, atom and lady. For points, the strongest plays are demy and emyd — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling moderately turns up 106 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, the strongest plays are may, yam, and yom — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderately. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and at. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
moderately 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 moderately. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
moderately is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moderately unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is moderately, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from moderately 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 moderately produce 548 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 78 six-letter words, 130 five-letter words, 177 four-letter words, 106 three-letter words and 33 two-letter words.