unemployed needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 302 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unemployed is the highest-scoring word from unemployed, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 302 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in unemployed — and it is unemployed itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unemployed produces exactly one eight-letter word: employed. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unemployed produces 5 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: employe, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unemployed turns up 34 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeply and opened. For points, the strongest play is yomped — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 56 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unemployed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon, enemy and lemon. For points, the strongest play is dumpy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unemployed produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lend, loud and lump. For points, the strongest plays are mopy and yomp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unemployed turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, dye and end. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including yep, yum and ply.
There are 27 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unemployed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me and my. For points, the strongest play is my — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in unemployed plus one additional letter.
unemployed 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 4-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 unemployed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
unemployed is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unemployed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unemployed, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unemployed 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 unemployed produce 302 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 34 six-letter words, 56 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 27 two-letter words.