Hidden inside informer sit informer, reinform, and reniform, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
informer, reinform, and reniform tie for the highest Scrabble score from informer at 13 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in informer: two come from rearranging its letters, and informer 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 informer, reinform, and reniform, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling informer produces exactly one seven-letter word: fermion. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling informer turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with firmer, former, and inform. For points, the strongest plays are firmer, former, inform, and reform — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in informer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer and minor. For points, the strongest plays are fermi and forme — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in informer produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire and firm. For points, the strongest plays are firm, form, and from — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling informer turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with for, men, nor, and one. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in informer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in and me. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in informer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in informer 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.
informer 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 one sense for informer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
informer is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing informer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are informer, reinform, and reniform, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from informer 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 informer produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.