Hidden inside hammerer sit hammerer and rehammer, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hammerer and rehammer tie for the highest Scrabble score from hammerer at 15 points. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in hammerer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hammerer 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 hammerer and rehammer, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hammerer turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hammer. For points, the strongest plays are hammer and hemmer — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammerer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are harem, herma, rehem, and rheme, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in hammerer produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, harm and hear. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including ahem, harm and haem.
Unscrambling hammerer turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ear. For points, the strongest play is hmm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammerer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and eh. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in hammerer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in hammerer 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.
hammerer 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.
hammerer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hammerer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hammerer and rehammer, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hammerer 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 hammerer produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.