reimbursed needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 392 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reimbursed is the highest-scoring word from reimbursed, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 392 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in reimbursed — and it is reimbursed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reimbursed produces exactly one nine-letter word: reimburse. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reimbursed. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are debruise and reburied, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reimbursed produces 37 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murders. For points, 6 words tie at 12 points, including bemired, bemused and berimed.
Unscrambling reimbursed turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beside, breeds and brides. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including dumber, bedims and bermed.
There are 97 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reimbursed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, birds and breed. For points, the strongest plays are bedim, dumbs, embed, and imbed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reimbursed produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beds, beer and bees. For points, the strongest play is dumb — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reimbursed turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bed, bee and bid. For points, the strongest plays are bum and mib — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reimbursed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, id and is. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including be, me and um.
reimbursed 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
reimbursed is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reimbursed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reimbursed, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reimbursed 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 reimbursed produce 392 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 37 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 97 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.