unsure needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 6 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 35 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
unsure is the highest-scoring word from unsure, worth 6 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 35 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in unsure — and it is unsure itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in unsure produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with runs and sure. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including runs, sure and erns.
Unscrambling unsure turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with run, sue, sun, and use. For points, 14 words tie at 3 points, including run, sue and sun.
Swap a single tile in unsure and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
unsure 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 two senses for unsure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 6 points on a Scrabble board:
unsure is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing unsure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is unsure, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and no other word from unsure 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 unsure produce 35 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 2 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.