ted needs no unscrambling at all — the three-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 4 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 5 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ted is the highest-scoring word from ted, worth 4 points in Scrabble. The top 5 of 5 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one three-letter word uses the letters in ted — and it is ted itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 4 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in ted. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in ted and you get a different three-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 2 of the 3 letters, not all of them.
ted 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in ted carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for ted. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 4 points on a Scrabble board:
ted is the only three-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing ted unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is ted, worth 4 points in Scrabble, and no other word from ted 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 ted produce 5 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 three-letter word and 4 two-letter words.