Hidden inside selected sit deselect and selected, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 85 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deselect and selected tie for the highest Scrabble score from selected at 11 points. The top 10 of 85 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in selected: one comes from rearranging its letters, and selected itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with selected. For points, the strongest plays are deselect and selected — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in selected produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deletes and elected. For points, the strongest play is elected — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling selected turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delete, elects, and select. For points, the strongest play is secede — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in selected. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elect and steel. For points, the strongest play is cedes — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in selected produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lets, and seed. For points, the strongest play is cede — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling selected turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led, let, see, and set. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cel, sec, and tec — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in selected. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in selected plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in selected and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
selected 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for selected. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
selected is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing selected unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deselect and selected, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from selected 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 selected produce 85 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.