Hidden inside sampled sit psalmed and sampled, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 174 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
psalmed and sampled tie for the highest Scrabble score from sampled at 12 points. The top 10 of 174 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in sampled: one comes from rearranging its letters, and sampled 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 psalmed and sampled, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sampled turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maples, medals, and sample. For points, the strongest plays are lamped and palmed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sampled. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deals, lamps, leads, leaps, males, maple, and meals. For points, the strongest plays are amped and damps — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in sampled produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with apes, deal, lads, lame, lamp, laps, and lead. For points, the strongest play is damp — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling sampled turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ape, lad, lap, led, mad, and map. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, and pam — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in sampled. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, pa, and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in sampled 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.
sampled 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.
sampled is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing sampled unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are psalmed and sampled, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from sampled 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 sampled produce 174 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.