supersedes needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 205 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
supersedes is the highest-scoring word from supersedes, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 205 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in supersedes — and it is supersedes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling supersedes turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depresses and supersede, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in supersedes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is speeders, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in supersedes produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dresses, pressed, and presses. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including pressed, depress and perdues.
Unscrambling supersedes turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper, purses, and speeds. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including deeper, speeds and drupes.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in supersedes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress and press. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including speed, deeps and drupe.
Rearranging the letters in supersedes produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and peed. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including deep, peed and deps.
Unscrambling supersedes turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, pee and per. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in supersedes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up and us. For points, the strongest plays are pe and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in supersedes plus one additional letter.
supersedes 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 supersedes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
supersedes is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing supersedes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is supersedes, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from supersedes 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 supersedes produce 205 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.