Hidden inside markers sit markers and remarks, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
markers and remarks tie for the highest Scrabble score from markers at 13 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in markers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and markers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remarks. For points, the strongest plays are markers and remarks — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling markers turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with makers and remark. For points, the strongest plays are makers, marker, masker, and remark — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in markers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maker, makes, and marks. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including maker, makes and marks.
Rearranging the letters in markers produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, ears and eras. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including make, mark and mask.
Unscrambling markers turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ask. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and kae.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in markers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in markers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in markers and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
markers 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for markers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
markers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing markers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are markers and remarks, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from markers 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 markers produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.