possessed needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 86 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
possessed is the highest-scoring word from possessed, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 86 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in possessed — and it is possessed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in possessed produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with possess. For points, the strongest plays are deposes and speedos — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in possessed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with posed, poses, seeds, and speed. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including posed, speed and deeps.
Rearranging the letters in possessed produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, does and peed. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and deps.
Unscrambling possessed turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pee and see. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in possessed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in possessed 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.
possessed 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for possessed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
possessed is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing possessed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is possessed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from possessed 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 possessed produce 86 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.