targeted needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
targeted is the highest-scoring word from targeted, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in targeted — and it is targeted itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling targeted produces exactly one seven-letter word: treated. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling targeted turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed and target. For points, the strongest plays are agreed, dragee, geared, and grated — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in targeted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, grade, great, greet, trade, and treat. For points, the strongest plays are edger, gated, grade, greed, and raged — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in targeted produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, date, dear, deer, drag, and edge. For points, the strongest plays are aged, drag, dreg, edge, egad, gaed, geed, and grad — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling targeted turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are dag, gad, and ged — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in targeted. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, 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 targeted plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in targeted 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.
targeted 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
targeted is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing targeted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is targeted, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from targeted 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 targeted produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 15 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.