murders needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SMURRED, MERRUDS or REMDURS and you get the same 7 letters as MURDERS: so the words from MURDERS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
murders is the highest-scoring word from murders, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in murders — and it is murders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in murders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drums, ruder, and surer. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including drums, demur and derms.
Rearranging the letters in murders produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drum, muds and rude. For points, the strongest plays are derm, drum, meds, and muds — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling murders turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, mud and red. For points, the strongest plays are dum, med, and mud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in murders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in murders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in murders 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.
murders 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 three senses for murders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
murders is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing murders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is murders, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from murders 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 murders produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.