examiners needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 335 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
examiners is the highest-scoring word from examiners, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 335 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in examiners — and it is examiners itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in examiners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with examines. For points, the strongest plays are examiner and examines — each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in examiners produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with examine, remains, and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are examens, examine, mirexes, and remixes — each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling examiners turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies, easier and meaner. For points, 5 words tie at 15 points, including mixers, axemen and examen.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in examiners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, erase and exams. For points, 9 words tie at 14 points, including exams, maxes and mixer.
Rearranging the letters in examiners produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and amen. For points, the strongest plays are exam, maxi, and minx — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling examiners turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, the strongest plays are max and mix — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in examiners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, the strongest plays are ax, ex, and xi — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in examiners plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in examiners and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
examiners 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for examiners. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
examiners is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing examiners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is examiners, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from examiners 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 examiners produce 335 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.