possesses needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
possesses is the highest-scoring word from possesses, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in possesses — and it is possesses itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling possesses produces exactly one seven-letter word: possess. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling possesses turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eposes, posses, and sepses, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in possesses. If a familiar word is all you need, start with poses. For points, the strongest plays are pesos, poses, posse, and seeps — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in possesses produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with pees, pose, and sees. For points, 8 words tie at 6 points, including pees, pose and epos.
Swap a single tile in possesses 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.
possesses 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for possesses. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
possesses is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing possesses unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is possesses, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from possesses 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 possesses produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.