Hidden inside drainer sit drainer and randier, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 99 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drainer and randier tie for the highest Scrabble score from drainer at 8 points. The top 10 of 99 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in drainer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drainer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drainer and randier, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drainer turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with errand and rained. For points, the strongest plays are arider, darner, denari, errand, raider, and rained — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, diner, drain, and drier. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aired, darer, deair, denar, dinar, diner, direr, drain, drear, drier, irade, nadir, ranid, rared, redan, redia, and rider — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in drainer produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, dine, earn, idea, near, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are aide, arid, dare, darn, dean, dear, deni, dine, dire, idea, ired, nard, nerd, nide, raid, rand, read, rend, ride, and rind — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drainer turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, and, are, die, ear, and end. For points, the strongest plays are aid, and, dan, den, die, din, end, rad, red, and rid — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drainer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in drainer 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.
drainer 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.
drainer is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drainer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drainer and randier, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drainer 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 drainer produce 99 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.