Hidden inside stamped sit dampest and stamped, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 168 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TEMPADS or PMATDES and you get the same 7 letters as STAMPED: so the words from STAMPED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
dampest and stamped tie for the highest Scrabble score from stamped at 12 points. The top 10 of 168 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in stamped: one comes from rearranging its letters, and stamped itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dampest and stamped, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stamped. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, mates and meats. For points, the strongest plays are amped and damps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in stamped produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, date and east. For points, the strongest play is damp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling stamped turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape and ate. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in stamped. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and as. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in stamped plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in stamped 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.
stamped 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.
stamped is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing stamped unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dampest and stamped, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from stamped 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 stamped produce 168 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.