weakened needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 90 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
weakened is the highest-scoring word from weakened, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 90 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in weakened — and it is weakened itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in weakened produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with weekend. For points, the strongest plays are wakened and weekend — each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling weakened turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is wanked, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weakened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with naked and waked. For points, the strongest play is waked — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in weakened produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dawn, knee and knew. For points, the strongest play is dawk — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling weakened turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, end, and new. For points, the strongest play is dak — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in weakened. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an and aw. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in weakened plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in weakened 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.
weakened 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for weakened. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
weakened is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing weakened unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is weakened, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from weakened 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 weakened produce 90 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.