Unscramble TEEN
TEEN is itself a valid word in both Scrabble and Words With Friends, worth 4 points and 5 respectively on plain squares. Rearranged and shortened, the same 4 letters make 9 words in total, from 4 letters down to two. No other word uses all 4 letters, which makes it a safe rack to hold. The highest scoring option is TEEN at 4 points in Scrabble. Grief; sorrow; affiction; pain. Chaucer. Spenser. With public toil and private teen Thou sank'st alone. M. Arnold. To excite; to provoke; to vex; to affict; to injure. Piers Plowman. To… If you can play it as it stands, do that before shortening it. A full rack usually outscores a shorter word even when the shorter one looks cleverer. Our guide to unscrambling letters fast explains the order to try these in.
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Scores shown are the bare tile values. Premium squares, and the fifty point bonus for using all seven tiles, are not included because they depend on where the word lands. More on that here.