modernists needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 836 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modernists is the highest-scoring word from modernists, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 836 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in modernists — and it is modernists itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modernists 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 demonists, missorted, and modernist, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with monsters and steroids. For points, the strongest plays are demonist, distomes, dormient, mindsets, misdoers, mistends, modistes, 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 modernists produces 86 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editors, mentors, moister, monster, reminds, seniors, and steroid. For points, the strongest plays are demists, dimness, distome, domines, dormins, emodins, endmost, minders, mindset, minored, misdoer, misdoes, misdone, missend, 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 modernists turns up 172 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons, diners, driest, editor, mentor, missed, and modern. For points, the strongest plays are deisms, demist, demits, demons, denims, dermis, dimers, dismes, domine, dormie, dormin, emodin, midsts, minder, minted, missed, misted, mitred, modern, modest, mondes, monied, mossed, 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 223 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modernists. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon, diets, dimes, diner, dines, dorms, and dress. 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 modernists produces 202 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with mess, mind, mine, mint, miss, mode, and more. 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 modernists turns up 97 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 modernists. 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.
modernists 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 modernists. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
modernists is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modernists unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is modernists, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from modernists 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 modernists produce 836 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 22 eight-letter words, 86 seven-letter words, 172 six-letter words, 223 five-letter words, 202 four-letter words, 97 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.