drummer needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MURDREM, DURMEMR or MURMDER and you get the same 7 letters as DRUMMER: so the words from DRUMMER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
drummer is the highest-scoring word from drummer, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in drummer — and it is drummer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drummer produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drum and rude. For points, the strongest plays are derm and drum — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drummer turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, mud, red, and rum. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mum, and umm — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in drummer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in drummer 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.
drummer 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 3-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 drummer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
drummer is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drummer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drummer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drummer 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 drummer produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.