tempered needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 84 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
tempered is the highest-scoring word from tempered, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 84 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in tempered — and it is tempered itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tempered produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is premeet, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tempered turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper. For points, the strongest plays are deperm, permed, premed, and temped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter. For points, the strongest plays are merde, meted, and preed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in tempered produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer, meet, peed, temp, term, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are perm and temp — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling tempered turns up 17 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, pee, per, pet, red, and rep. For points, the strongest plays are dep, med, and ped — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tempered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and pe — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in tempered 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.
tempered 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 two senses for tempered. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
tempered is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tempered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tempered, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from tempered 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 tempered produce 84 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 17 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.