Hidden inside doorman sit doorman and madrono, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 94 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
doorman and madrono tie for the highest Scrabble score from doorman at 10 points. The top 10 of 94 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in doorman: one comes from rearranging its letters, and doorman itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with doorman. For points, the strongest plays are doorman and madrono — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doorman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donor and moron. For points, the strongest plays are monad, mondo, and nomad — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in doorman produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with damn, doom and door. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including damn, doom and dorm.
Unscrambling doorman turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with and, arm and mad. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dom, mad, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in doorman. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, the strongest plays are am, ma, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in doorman plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in doorman and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
doorman 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 one sense for doorman. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
doorman is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing doorman unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are doorman and madrono, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from doorman 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 doorman produce 94 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.