Hidden inside drains sit dinars, drains, nadirs and 1 other, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 83 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dinars, drains, nadirs and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from drains at 7 points. The top 10 of 83 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 six-letter words hiding in drains: three come from rearranging its letters, and drains itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drains. For points, the strongest plays are dinars, drains, nadirs, and ranids — 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drain and rains. For points, the strongest plays are darns, dinar, drain, nadir, nards, raids, rands, ranid, and rinds — 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 drains produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, rain, rids, said, and sand. For points, the strongest plays are aids, ands, arid, dais, dans, darn, dins, nard, rads, raid, rand, rids, rind, sadi, said, sand, and sard — 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 drains turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, ids, ran, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, and, dan, das, din, dis, ids, rad, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drains. 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, 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 drains and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
drains 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.
Dictionaries record eight senses for drains. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
drains is one of four six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drains unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dinars, drains, nadirs, and ranids, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drains 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 drains produce 83 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.