Hidden inside mussed sit mussed and sedums, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
mussed and sedums tie for the highest Scrabble score from mussed at 9 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in mussed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and mussed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mussed and sedums, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mussed. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are mused and sedum, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in mussed produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, muds and sued. For points, the strongest plays are meds and muds — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling mussed turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, mud, sue, and use. For points, the strongest plays are dum, med, and mud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in mussed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in mussed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in mussed and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
mussed 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.
mussed is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing mussed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mussed and sedums, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from mussed 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 mussed produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.