unexamined needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 20 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unexamined is the highest-scoring word from unexamined, worth 20 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in unexamined — and it is unexamined itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 20 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unexamined produces exactly one eight-letter word: examined. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unexamined produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with examine. For points, the strongest play is unmixed — worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unexamined turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maiden. For points, the strongest plays are axemen, examen, and meninx — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unexamined. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, media, mixed, and named. For points, the strongest plays are admix, maxed, mixed, and muxed — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unexamined produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and dime. For points, the strongest plays are exam, maxi, and minx — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unexamined turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, the strongest plays are max, mix, and mux — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unexamined. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, xi, and xu — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
unexamined 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.
unexamined is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unexamined unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unexamined, worth 20 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unexamined 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 unexamined produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.