traversed needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 346 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
traversed is the highest-scoring word from traversed, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 346 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in traversed — and it is traversed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traversed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrested. For points, the strongest plays are averters and traverse — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in traversed produces 27 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, retards, starred, and starved. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including starved, adverse and adverts.
Unscrambling traversed turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, dearer and desert. For points, 10 words tie at 10 points, including served, advert and deaves.
There are 91 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traversed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates and dears. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including saved, deave and devas.
Rearranging the letters in traversed produces 81 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare and date. For points, the strongest plays are deva and devs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling traversed turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in traversed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in traversed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in traversed and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
traversed 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.
traversed is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing traversed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is traversed, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from traversed 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 traversed produce 346 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 27 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 91 five-letter words, 81 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.