Hidden inside modeler sit modeler and remodel, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 92 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modeler and remodel tie for the highest Scrabble score from modeler at 10 points. The top 10 of 92 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in modeler: one comes from rearranging its letters, and modeler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are modeler and remodel, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modeler turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emerod, melder, molder, and remold, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modeler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with model and older. For points, the strongest plays are merde and model — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modeler produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dorm and lord. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including dorm, mode and deem.
Unscrambling modeler turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led, old, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are dom, med, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modeler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, and or. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
8 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in modeler plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modeler 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.
modeler 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 modeler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
modeler is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modeler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are modeler and remodel, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from modeler 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 modeler produce 92 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.