drummers needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 93 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drummers is the highest-scoring word from drummers, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 93 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in drummers — and it is drummers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drummers produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murders. For points, the strongest play is drummer — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drummers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drums, ruder, and surer. For points, the strongest play is ummed — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drummers produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drum, muds and rude. For points, the strongest plays are mems and mums — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drummers turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, mud and red. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mum, and umm — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drummers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and us. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in drummers 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.
drummers 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 drummers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
drummers is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drummers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drummers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drummers 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 drummers produce 93 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.