Hidden inside modernise sit domineers and modernise, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 464 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
domineers and modernise tie for the highest Scrabble score from modernise at 12 points. The top 10 of 464 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in modernise: one comes from rearranging its letters, and modernise 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 domineers and modernise, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernise. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deminers, demonise, domineer and 2 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modernise produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminds. For points, 20 words tie at 10 points, including reminds, deminer and domines.
Unscrambling modernise turns up 80 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, denies and desire. For points, 25 words tie at 9 points, including demons, modern and remind.
There are 114 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, demon and dimes. For points, 24 words tie at 8 points, including demon, dimes and dorms.
Rearranging the letters in modernise produces 128 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mind, mine and mode. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including mind, mode and dime.
Unscrambling modernise turns up 74 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ids. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including dim, dom and med.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernise. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and in. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
7 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in modernise plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modernise 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.
modernise 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 two senses for modernise. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
modernise is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modernise unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are domineers and modernise, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from modernise 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 modernise produce 464 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 80 six-letter words, 114 five-letter words, 128 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.