plundered needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 172 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plundered is the highest-scoring word from plundered, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 172 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in plundered — and it is plundered itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling plundered produces exactly one eight-letter word: preluded. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plundered produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are peddler, puddler, and upended, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling plundered turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with depend. For points, the strongest plays are depend, peddle, pended, and puddle — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plundered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended, lured and nuder. For points, the strongest play is duped — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plundered produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep and deer. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and dupe.
Unscrambling plundered turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end and led. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plundered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up. For points, the strongest plays are pe and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in plundered and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
plundered 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 4-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 plundered. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
plundered is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plundered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is plundered, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from plundered 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 plundered produce 172 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.