Hidden inside hammerers sit hammerers and rehammers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 189 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
hammerers and rehammers tie for the highest Scrabble score from hammerers at 16 points. The top 10 of 189 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in hammerers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and hammerers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are hammerers and rehammers, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammerers. 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.
Rearranging the letters in hammerers produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with hammers. For points, the strongest plays are hammers, hemmers, and shammer — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling hammerers turns up 28 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammerers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, harms and hears. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including harms, shame and haems.
Rearranging the letters in hammerers produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ahem, arms and ears. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including ahem, hams and harm.
Unscrambling hammerers turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ash. For points, the strongest play is hmm — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in hammerers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ah, am and as. For points, the strongest play is hm — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in hammerers 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.
hammerers 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.
hammerers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing hammerers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are hammerers and rehammers, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from hammerers 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 hammerers produce 189 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.