optioned 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, 147 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
optioned is the highest-scoring word from optioned, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 147 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in optioned — and it is optioned itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling optioned produces exactly one seven-letter word: pointed. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling optioned turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with option. For points, the strongest plays are dipnet, opined, podite, and ponied — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in optioned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with point. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including depot, opted and pined.
Rearranging the letters in optioned produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diet, dine and done. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including pond, dipt and dope.
Unscrambling optioned turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip and dot. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dip, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in optioned. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and in. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in optioned plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in optioned 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.
optioned 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.
optioned is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing optioned unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is optioned, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from optioned 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 optioned produce 147 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.