Hidden inside team sit mate, meat, meta and 2 others, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble AEMT and you get the same 4 letters as TEAM: so the words from TEAM below are the words from AEMT too.
mate, meat, meta and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from team at 6 points. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 four-letter words hiding in team: four come from rearranging its letters, and team itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mate, meat, and team. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mate, meat and team.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in team. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in team and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
team 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for team. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
team is one of five four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing team unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are mate, meat, meta, tame, and team, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from team 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 team produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.