Hidden inside modern sit modern, normed, and rodmen, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 72 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modern, normed, and rodmen tie for the highest Scrabble score from modern at 9 points. The top 10 of 72 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in modern: two come from rearranging its letters, and modern itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with modern. For points, the strongest plays are modern, normed, and rodmen — 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 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon. For points, the strongest plays are demon and monde — 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 modern produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with done, dorm, mode, more, nerd, and rode. For points, the strongest plays are demo, derm, dome, dorm, mend, and mode — 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 modern turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, men, nor, one, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are dom, med, and mod — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in modern 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.
modern 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.
modern is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modern unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are modern, normed, and rodmen, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from modern 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 modern produce 72 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.