Hidden inside modernised sit endodermis and modernised, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 538 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
endodermis and modernised tie for the highest Scrabble score from modernised at 14 points. The top 10 of 538 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in modernised: one comes from rearranging its letters, and modernised itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are endodermis and modernised, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modernised turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demonised and endoderms, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernised. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminded. For points, the strongest plays are dermoids, endoderm, and reminded — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modernised produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminds. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including demised, denimed and dermoid.
Unscrambling modernised turns up 107 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, denied and denies. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including minded, demode and demoed.
There are 130 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernised. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeds, deers and demon. For points, the strongest play is domed — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modernised produces 134 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 modernised turns up 76 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and end. 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 modernised. 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.
modernised 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 modernised. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
modernised is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modernised unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are endodermis and modernised, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from modernised 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 modernised produce 538 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 107 six-letter words, 130 five-letter words, 134 four-letter words, 76 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.