Hidden inside minders sit minders and reminds, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 143 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
minders and reminds tie for the highest Scrabble score from minders at 10 points. The top 10 of 143 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in minders: one comes from rearranging its letters, and minders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminds. For points, the strongest plays are minders and reminds — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling minders turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diners and remind. For points, the strongest plays are denims, dermis, dimers, minder, and remind — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes, diner, dines, dries, minds, nerds, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are deism, denim, derms, dimer, dimes, disme, mends, minds, mined, mired, and rimed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in minders produces 47 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dime, dine, ends, mind, mine, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are derm, dime, dims, idem, meds, mend, mids, and mind — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling minders turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, men, red, rid, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in minders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in minders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in minders 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.
minders 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 two senses for minders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
minders is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing minders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are minders and reminds, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from minders 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 minders produce 143 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 47 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.