potted needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 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.
Unscramble OTTEPD, POTTDE or DOPETT and you get the same 6 letters as POTTED: so the words from POTTED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
potted is the highest-scoring word from potted, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in potted — and it is potted itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in potted. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depot, opted, and toped, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling potted turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, pet and pot. 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 potted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and to. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in potted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in potted and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
potted 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 three senses for potted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
potted is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing potted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is potted, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from potted 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 potted produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.