thirteen needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
thirteen is the highest-scoring word from thirteen, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in thirteen — and it is thirteen itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in thirteen produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with neither. For points, the strongest plays are neither and therein — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling thirteen turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with either and entire. For points, 10 words tie at 9 points, including either, herein and hinter.
There are 26 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thirteen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter, teeth and tenth. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including teeth, tenth and their.
Rearranging the letters in thirteen produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with here, hint and hire. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including here, hint and hire.
Unscrambling thirteen turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hen, her and hit. For points, 9 words tie at 6 points, including hen, her and hit.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in thirteen. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he and hi. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in thirteen plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in thirteen 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.
thirteen 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 thirteen carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for thirteen. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
thirteen is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing thirteen unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is thirteen, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from thirteen 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 thirteen produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 26 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.