Hidden inside lumberers sit lumberers and slumberer, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 184 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
lumberers and slumberer tie for the highest Scrabble score from lumberers at 13 points. The top 10 of 184 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in lumberers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and lumberers 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 lumberers and slumberer, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lumberers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are lumberer and rumblers, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in lumberers produces 9 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are embrues, lumbers, rumbler and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lumberers turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rebels and resume. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including bemuse, bermes and blumes.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lumberers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beers, bluer and blues. For points, 8 words tie at 9 points, including berme, berms and blume.
Rearranging the letters in lumberers produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with beer, bees and blue. For points, the strongest plays are berm and bums — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling lumberers turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with bee, bum and bus. For points, the strongest play is bum — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in lumberers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with be, me, um, and us. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including be, me and um.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in lumberers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in lumberers 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.
lumberers 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
lumberers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing lumberers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are lumberers and slumberer, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from lumberers 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 lumberers produce 184 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.