Hidden inside drainers sit drainers and serranid, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 263 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drainers and serranid tie for the highest Scrabble score from drainers at 9 points. The top 10 of 263 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in drainers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drainers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drainers and serranid, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in drainers produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with errands. For points, the strongest plays are darners, drainer, errands, raiders, randier, randies, sandier, and sardine — 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 drainers turns up 38 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diners, drains, errand, rained, and raised. For points, the strongest plays are aiders, arider, darers, darner, deairs, denari, denars, derris, dinars, diners, drains, drears, driers, errand, irades, nadirs, raider, rained, raised, ranids, redans, redias, resaid, riders, rinsed, sained, sander, sirdar, snared, and snider — 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 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drainers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside, dares, dears, diner, dines, and drain. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aides, aired, aside, darer, dares, darns, deair, deans, dears, denar, dinar, diner, dines, direr, drain, drear, drier, dries, ideas, irade, nadir, nards, nerds, nides, raids, rands, ranid, rared, rased, reads, redan, redia, rends, resid, rider, rides, rinds, saned, sedan, sired, and snide — 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 drainers produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, dare, dear, dies, dine, and earn. For points, the strongest plays are aide, aids, ands, arid, dais, dans, dare, darn, dean, dear, deni, dens, desi, dies, dine, dins, dire, ends, idea, ides, ired, nard, nerd, nide, rads, raid, rand, read, reds, rend, ride, rids, rind, sade, sadi, said, sand, sard, send, side, and sned — 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 drainers turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, are, die, and ear. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, and, dan, das, den, die, din, dis, eds, end, ids, rad, red, rid, and sad — 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drainers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, and is. 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 drainers 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.
drainers 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.
drainers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drainers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drainers and serranid, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drainers 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 drainers produce 263 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 38 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.