Hidden inside administer sit administer and mistrained, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 989 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
administer and mistrained tie for the highest Scrabble score from administer at 13 points. The top 10 of 989 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in administer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and administer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are administer and mistrained, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling administer produces exactly one nine-letter word: meridians. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in administer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with martinis and minister. For points, the strongest plays are amidines, diamines, diriment, mediants, meridian, misrated, readmits, semiarid, and triadism — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in administer produces 117 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admires, dairies, diaries, instead, maestri, maidens, and martini. For points, the strongest plays are admires, amidine, amidins, damners, damnest, diamine, diamins, diastem, inarmed, maidens, mantids, medians, mediant, medinas, midairs, minders, mindset, misdate, misedit, misread, mistend, readmit, remands, reminds, sedarim, sidearm, sideman, smarted, stimied, tandems, and timider — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling administer turns up 192 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, admits, armies, diners, drains, dreams, and dreamt. For points, the strongest plays are admins, admire, admits, aidmen, amends, amides, amidin, amidst, daimen, damner, demast, demist, demits, denims, dermas, dermis, desman, diamin, dimers, dirams, disarm, dreams, dreamt, imides, madres, maiden, mantid, marted, masted, median, medias, medina, menads, midair, minder, minted, mirids, misted, mitred, remand, remind, and tandem — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 283 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in administer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed, aired, armed, aside, ideas, and items. For points, the strongest plays are admen, admin, admit, aimed, amend, amide, amids, armed, imide, imids, madre, maids, maned, mated, meads, media, medii, menad, mends, midis, midst, minds, mined, mired, mirid, dames, damns, deism, demit, denim, derma, derms, dimer, dimes, diram, disme, drams, dream, named, rimed, tamed, timed, and timid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in administer produces 230 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims, airs, amen, ants, arms, and arts. For points, the strongest plays are amid, made, mads, maid, mead, meds, mend, midi, mids, mind, dame, damn, dams, derm, dime, dims, dram, idem, and imid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling administer turns up 103 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, air, and, ant, and are. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dim, mad, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in administer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, at, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in administer plus one additional letter.
administer 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 2-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 administer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
administer is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing administer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are administer and mistrained, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from administer 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 administer produce 989 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 1 nine-letter word, 31 eight-letter words, 117 seven-letter words, 192 six-letter words, 283 five-letter words, 230 four-letter words, 103 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.