quartered needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 132 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
quartered is the highest-scoring word from quartered, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 132 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in quartered — and it is quartered itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in quartered produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with quarter. For points, the strongest play is equated — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quartered turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearer and retard. For points, the strongest plays are equate, quaere, quarte, and quatre — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quartered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with queer, ruder, trade, and truer. For points, the strongest plays are quare, quart, quate, and queer — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in quartered produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and dear. For points, the strongest play is quad — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling quartered turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are qat and qua — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in quartered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in quartered 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.
quartered 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.
quartered is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing quartered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is quartered, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from quartered 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 quartered produce 132 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.