reprimand needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 321 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reprimand is the highest-scoring word from reprimand, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 321 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in reprimand — and it is reprimand itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reprimand produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with married. For points, the strongest play is permian — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reprimand turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, diaper and errand. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including dampen, damper and impend.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprimand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aired and armed. For points, the strongest plays are amped and imped — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reprimand produces 97 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, made and maid. For points, the strongest play is damp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reprimand turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and air. For points, the strongest plays are amp, imp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reprimand. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in reprimand plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reprimand 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.
reprimand 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for reprimand. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
reprimand is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reprimand unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is reprimand, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from reprimand 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 reprimand produce 321 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 97 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.