machine needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble NAMECHI, CHIMANE or ICHAMEN and you get the same 7 letters as MACHINE: so the words from MACHINE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
machine is the highest-scoring word from machine, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in machine — and it is machine itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling machine turns up 7 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are haemic and manche, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in machine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chain. For points, the strongest plays are chime, hemic, mache, and miche — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in machine produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, amen and came. For points, the strongest plays are cham, chem, mach, and mech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling machine turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, can and ham. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including ham, him and chi.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in machine. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and an. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
10 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in machine plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in machine 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.
machine 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 eight senses for machine. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
machine is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing machine unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is machine, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from machine 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 machine produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.