Hidden inside modelers sit modelers, morseled, and remodels, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 225 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modelers, morseled, and remodels tie for the highest Scrabble score from modelers at 11 points. The top 10 of 225 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in modelers: two come from rearranging its letters, and modelers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are modelers, morseled, and remodels, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modelers produces 8 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 emerods, melders, modeler and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modelers turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with models. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including models, emerod and melder.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modelers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dorms and lords. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including dorms, model and modes.
Rearranging the letters in modelers produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, does and dorm. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including dorm, mode and deem.
Unscrambling modelers turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led, old and red. For points, the strongest plays are dom, med, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modelers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in modelers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modelers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
modelers 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 modelers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
modelers is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modelers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are modelers, morseled, and remodels, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from modelers 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 modelers produce 225 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.