Hidden inside molders sit molders, remolds, and smolder, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 158 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SMODLER, SLEDROM or DORMSEL and you get the same 7 letters as MOLDERS: so the words from MOLDERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
molders, remolds, and smolder tie for the highest Scrabble score from molders at 10 points. The top 10 of 158 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in molders: two come from rearranging its letters, and molders 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 molders, remolds, and smolder, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling molders turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with models. For points, the strongest plays are models, molder, remold, and seldom — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in molders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dorms, lords and loser. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including dorms, model and modes.
Rearranging the letters in molders produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dorm and lord. For points, 10 words tie at 7 points, including dorm, mode and demo.
Unscrambling molders turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with led, old, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are dom, med, and mod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in molders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in molders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in molders 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.
molders 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 molders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
molders is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing molders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are molders, remolds, and smolder, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from molders 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 molders produce 158 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.