Hidden inside marker sit marker and remark, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 36 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble MERKAR, ERAKRM or EMKRRA and you get the same 6 letters as MARKER: so the words from MARKER listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
marker and remark tie for the highest Scrabble score from marker at 12 points. The top 10 of 36 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in marker: one comes from rearranging its letters, and marker itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remark. For points, the strongest plays are marker and remark — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in marker produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with make, mark, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are kame, make, mark, and merk — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling marker turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ark, kae, and kea — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in marker plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in marker and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
marker 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 marker. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
marker is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing marker unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are marker and remark, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from marker 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 marker produce 36 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.