modernisms needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 466 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modernisms is the highest-scoring word from modernisms, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 466 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in modernisms — and it is modernisms itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modernisms turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demonisms and modernism, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernisms. 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 modernisms produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminds and seniors. For points, the strongest play is dimmers — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modernisms turns up 85 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, diners and missed. For points, the strongest plays are dimmer, modems, nimmed, and rimmed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 112 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernisms. 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 modernisms produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with memo, mess and mind. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including memo, moms and mems.
Unscrambling modernisms turns up 74 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 modernisms. 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.
modernisms 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 modernisms. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
modernisms is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modernisms unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is modernisms, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from modernisms 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 modernisms produce 466 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 85 six-letter words, 112 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 74 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.