segmented 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, 144 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
segmented is the highest-scoring word from segmented, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 144 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in segmented — and it is segmented itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in segmented produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dements, demesne, seedmen, and segment, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling segmented turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seemed. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including seemed, dement and emends.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in segmented. If a familiar word is all you need, start with edges, geese and genes. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including deems, demes and emend.
Rearranging the letters in segmented produces 49 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with edge, ends and gene. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including deem, deme and gems.
Unscrambling segmented turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, gee and get. For points, the strongest plays are gem, med, and meg — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in segmented 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.
segmented 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 one sense for segmented. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
segmented is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing segmented unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is segmented, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from segmented 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 segmented produce 144 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 49 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.