Hidden inside informers sit informers and reinforms, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 275 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
informers and reinforms tie for the highest Scrabble score from informers at 14 points. The top 10 of 275 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in informers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and informers 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 informers and reinforms, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in informers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ensiform, fermions, informer and 2 more, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in informers produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with informs. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including informs, fermion and firmers.
Unscrambling informers turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with firmer, former, inform, and senior. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including firmer, former and inform.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in informers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with finer, fires and firms. For points, the strongest plays are fermi, firms, forme, and forms — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in informers produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fine, fire and firm. For points, the strongest plays are fems, firm, form, and from — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling informers turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with for, men and nor. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in informers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with if, in and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in informers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in informers 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.
informers 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 informers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
informers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing informers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are informers and reinforms, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from informers 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 informers produce 275 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.