pawed needs no unscrambling at all — the five-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 29 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
pawed is the highest-scoring word from pawed, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 29 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one five-letter word uses the letters in pawed — and it is pawed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in pawed produces 3 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are awed and wade, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling pawed turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, pad, paw, and pea. For points, the strongest plays are paw, pew, and wap — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in pawed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, aw, ew, and we. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in pawed and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
pawed 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.
pawed is the only five-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing pawed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is pawed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from pawed 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 pawed produce 29 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 3 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.