unanswered needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 408 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unanswered is the highest-scoring word from unanswered, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 408 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in unanswered — and it is unanswered itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unanswered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answered. For points, the strongest plays are answered, unwarned, and unweaned — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unanswered produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with wanders. For points, 11 words tie at 11 points, including wanders, deewans and drawees.
Unscrambling unanswered turns up 60 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with answer, earned and erased. For points, 16 words tie at 10 points, including wander, warned and deewan.
There are 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unanswered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dawns and dears. For points, 21 words tie at 9 points, including dawns, drawn and draws.
Rearranging the letters in unanswered produces 122 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anus, dare and dawn. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including dawn, draw and drew.
Unscrambling unanswered turns up 67 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and are. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including daw, dew and wad.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unanswered. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are aw, ew, and we — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
unanswered 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 one sense for unanswered. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
unanswered is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unanswered unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unanswered, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unanswered 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 unanswered produce 408 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 60 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 122 four-letter words, 67 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.