modifier needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 114 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modifier is the highest-scoring word from modifier, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 114 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in modifier — and it is modifier itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modifier produces exactly one seven-letter word: deiform. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modifier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fired and fried. For points, the strongest play is fremd — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in modifier produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dime, dorm and fire. For points, the strongest plays are firm, form, and from — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modifier turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, fed and for. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modifier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in modifier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in modifier and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
modifier 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for modifier. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
modifier is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modifier unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is modifier, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from modifier 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 modifier produce 114 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 4 six-letter words, 16 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.