responded needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 307 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
responded is the highest-scoring word from responded, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 307 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in responded — and it is responded itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responded. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dropseed and pondered, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in responded produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with depends, openers, and respond. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including depends, deponed and deposed.
Unscrambling responded turns up 45 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with depend, opened, opener, and person. For points, the strongest plays are depend, pended, and ponded — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 82 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeds, deers and drops. For points, the strongest play is doped — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in responded produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deep and deer. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including deep, drop and peed.
Unscrambling responded turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, nor and odd. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responded. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in responded 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.
responded 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
responded is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing responded unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is responded, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from responded 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 responded produce 307 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 45 six-letter words, 82 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.