Hidden inside modernest sit entoderms and modernest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 472 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
entoderms and modernest tie for the highest Scrabble score from modernest at 12 points. The top 10 of 472 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in modernest: one comes from rearranging its letters, and modernest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are entoderms and modernest, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernest. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demetons, entoderm, mentored, modernes, modester, mordents, and teendoms, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in modernest produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mentors, meteors, monster, remotes, and stormed. For points, the strongest plays are dements, demeton, demotes, emerods, endmost, menders, moderne, moderns, mordent, remends, rodsmen, stormed, and teendom — 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 modernest turns up 79 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, desert, enters, mentor, meteor, meters, and modern. For points, the strongest plays are dement, demons, demote, emends, emerod, emoted, mender, mensed, merdes, metred, modern, modest, mondes, normed, omened, remend, rodmen, and termed — 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 130 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, demon, dorms, enter, meets, meter, and modes. For points, the strongest plays are deems, demes, demon, demos, derms, domes, dorms, emend, meeds, mends, merde, meted, modes, 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 modernest produces 130 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, mode, more, most, need, nerd, and nest. For points, the strongest plays are meds, meed, mend, mode, mods, deem, deme, demo, derm, dome, doms, and dorm — 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 modernest turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, end, men, met, net, nor, and not. 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, no, on, or, so, and to. 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.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in modernest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modernest and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
modernest 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.
modernest is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modernest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are entoderms and modernest, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from modernest 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 modernest produce 472 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 79 six-letter words, 130 five-letter words, 130 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.