Hidden inside unmarred sit underarm and unmarred, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 163 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
underarm and unmarred tie for the highest Scrabble score from unmarred at 11 points. The top 10 of 163 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in unmarred: one comes from rearranging its letters, and unmarred itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are underarm and unmarred, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unmarred produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are duramen, eardrum, manured and 2 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling unmarred turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with errand, manure, and murder. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including murder, damner and marred.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unmarred. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, dream and named. For points, 14 words tie at 8 points, including armed, dream and named.
Rearranging the letters in unmarred produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and dare. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including damn, drum and made.
Unscrambling unmarred turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, are and arm. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, mud and dam.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in unmarred. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in unmarred plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in unmarred 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.
unmarred 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 unmarred. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
unmarred is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unmarred unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are underarm and unmarred, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from unmarred 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 unmarred produce 163 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.