Hidden inside moderns sit moderns and rodsmen, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 171 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moderns and rodsmen tie for the highest Scrabble score from moderns at 10 points. The top 10 of 171 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in moderns: one comes from rearranging its letters, and moderns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moderns and rodsmen, 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 moderns turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demons and modern. For points, the strongest plays are demons, modern, mondes, normed, 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon, dorms, modes, and nerds. For points, the strongest plays are demon, demos, derms, domes, dorms, mends, modes, and monde — 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 moderns produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, done, dorm, ends, mode, more, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are demo, derm, dome, doms, dorm, meds, mend, mode, and mods — 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 moderns turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, men, nor, one, red, rod, and son. For points, the strongest plays are dom, med, 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 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in moderns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, no, on, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, 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.
Swap a single tile in moderns and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
moderns 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 seven senses for moderns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
moderns is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing moderns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are moderns and rodsmen, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from moderns 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 moderns produce 171 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.