Hidden inside duramens sit duramens, maunders, and surnamed, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 322 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
duramens, maunders, and surnamed tie for the highest Scrabble score from duramens at 11 points. The top 10 of 322 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in duramens: two come from rearranging its letters, and duramens 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 duramens, maunders, and surnamed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in duramens produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manures. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including damners, duramen and manured.
Unscrambling duramens turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amused, dreams and manure. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including amused, dreams and amends.
There are 87 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duramens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amuse, armed and damns. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including armed, damns and dream.
Rearranging the letters in duramens produces 102 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, anus and arms. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including damn, drum and made.
Unscrambling duramens turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and and are. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, mud and dam.
There are 23 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duramens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 6 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and um.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in duramens plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in duramens 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.
duramens 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 duramens. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
duramens is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing duramens unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are duramens, maunders, and surnamed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from duramens 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 duramens produce 322 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 87 five-letter words, 102 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 23 two-letter words.