temperature needs no unscrambling at all — the eleven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 290 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
temperature is the highest-scoring word from temperature, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 290 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eleven-letter word uses the letters in temperature — and it is temperature itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling temperature turns up 5 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are permutate, premature, temperate, and trumpeter, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temperature. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are attemper, permeate, retemper and 2 more, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in temperature produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maturer. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including amputee, permute and premeet.
Unscrambling temperature turns up 48 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with matter, mature, and repeat. For points, 6 words tie at 10 points, including ampere, meetup and metepa.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temperature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter, purer and tempt. For points, the strongest plays are remap, tempt, tramp, and trump — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in temperature produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mate, meat and meet. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including ramp, temp and perm.
Unscrambling temperature turns up 59 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ape, are and arm. For points, the strongest plays are amp, map, pam, and ump — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in temperature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, at and me. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
1 twelve-letter word can be made using all the letters in temperature plus one additional letter.
temperature 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for temperature. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
temperature is the only eleven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing temperature unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is temperature, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from temperature 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 temperature produce 290 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eleven-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 14 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 48 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 59 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.