modernism needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 374 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modernism is the highest-scoring word from modernism, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 374 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in modernism — and it is modernism itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernism. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is demonism, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modernism produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminds. For points, the strongest play is dimmers — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modernism turns up 54 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, diners and modern. For points, the strongest plays are dimmer, modems, nimmed, and rimmed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 92 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon, dimes and diner. For points, the strongest plays are mimed and modem — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modernism produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memo, mind and mine. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including memo, moms and mems.
Unscrambling modernism turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ids. For points, the strongest plays are mem, mim, and mom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernism. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and in. For points, the strongest play is mm — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in modernism plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modernism 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.
modernism 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for modernism. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
modernism is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modernism unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is modernism, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from modernism 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 modernism produce 374 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 54 six-letter words, 92 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.