steepened needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
steepened is the highest-scoring word from steepened, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in steepened — and it is steepened itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in steepened produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deepest. For points, the strongest plays are deepens, deepest, and steeped — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling steepened turns up 8 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deepen, peened, and seeped, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steepened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needs, penes and speed. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including speed, spend and deeps.
Rearranging the letters in steepened produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, ends and need. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and deps.
Unscrambling steepened turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net and pee. For points, the strongest plays are dep and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steepened. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is pe, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in steepened 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.
steepened 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.
steepened is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steepened unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is steepened, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from steepened 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 steepened produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.