problem needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 82 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
problem is the highest-scoring word from problem, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 82 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in problem — and it is problem itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in problem. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pombe, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in problem produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bore, mole, more, poem, pole, prom, and robe. For points, the strongest plays are berm, mope, perm, pleb, poem, pome, prob, prom, and romp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling problem turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mob, mop, per, pro, rep, and rob. For points, the strongest plays are bop, mob, mop, and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in problem. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, me, and or. For points, the strongest plays are be, bo, em, me, mo, om, op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in problem plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in problem and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
problem 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 three senses for problem. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
problem is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing problem unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is problem, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from problem 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 problem produce 82 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.