modernist needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 658 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modernist is the highest-scoring word from modernist, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 658 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in modernist — and it is modernist itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernist. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demonist, dormient, mordents, and mortised, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in modernist produces 49 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editors, mentors, moister, monster, reminds, steroid, and stormed. For points, the strongest plays are distome, domines, dormins, emodins, endmost, minders, mindset, minored, misdoer, misdone, mistend, moderns, modiste, mordent, nimrods, reminds, rodsmen, and stormed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling modernist turns up 111 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, diners, driest, editor, mentor, modern, and remind. For points, the strongest plays are demist, demits, demons, denims, dermis, dimers, domine, dormie, dormin, emodin, minder, minted, misted, mitred, modern, modest, mondes, monied, nimrod, normed, remind, and rodmen — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 189 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon, diets, dimes, diner, dines, dorms, and dries. For points, the strongest plays are deism, demit, demoi, demon, demos, denim, derms, dimer, dimes, disme, domes, dorms, mends, midst, minds, mined, mired, misdo, modes, monde, rimed, and timed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in modernist produces 180 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mind, mine, mint, mode, more, most, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are meds, mend, mids, mind, mode, modi, mods, demo, derm, dime, dims, dome, doms, dorm, and idem — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling modernist turns up 94 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, end, ids, its, men, and met. For points, the strongest plays are dim, dom, med, mid, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, it, me, and no. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in modernist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modernist 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.
modernist 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 modernist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
modernist is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modernist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is modernist, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from modernist 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 modernist produce 658 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 49 seven-letter words, 111 six-letter words, 189 five-letter words, 180 four-letter words, 94 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.