Hidden inside modernises sit modernises and sermonised, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 611 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modernises and sermonised tie for the highest Scrabble score from modernises at 13 points. The top 10 of 611 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in modernises: one comes from rearranging its letters, and modernises 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 modernises and sermonised, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modernises turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demonises, domineers, and modernise, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernises. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deminers, demoness, demonise and 6 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modernises produces 65 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desires, messier, reminds, and seniors. For points, 25 words tie at 10 points, including reminds, deminer and demises.
Unscrambling modernises turns up 127 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, denies and desire. For points, 30 words tie at 9 points, including demons, messed and missed.
There are 145 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernises. 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 modernises produces 148 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, mind and mine. For points, 18 words tie at 7 points, including mind, mode and dime.
Unscrambling modernises turns up 77 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 modernises. 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.
modernises 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 modernises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
modernises is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modernises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are modernises and sermonised, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from modernises 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 modernises produce 611 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 16 eight-letter words, 65 seven-letter words, 127 six-letter words, 145 five-letter words, 148 four-letter words, 77 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.