Hidden inside murdered sit demurred and murdered, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demurred and murdered tie for the highest Scrabble score from murdered at 12 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in murdered: one comes from rearranging its letters, and murdered itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murdered. For points, the strongest plays are demurred and murdered — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling murdered produces exactly one seven-letter word: demurer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling murdered turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murder and redder. For points, the strongest play is mudder — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in murdered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ruder. For points, the strongest plays are demur, merde, and mured — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in murdered produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, drum, dude, and rude. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deme, derm, drum, and meed — 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 murdered turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, mud, red, and rum. For points, the strongest plays are dum, med, and mud — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in murdered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me and um. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in murdered 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.
murdered 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 one sense for murdered. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
murdered is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing murdered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demurred and murdered, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from murdered 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 murdered produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.