modifies 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, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
modifies is the highest-scoring word from modifies, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in modifies — and it is modifies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modifies produces exactly one seven-letter word: fideism. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling modifies turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is misfed, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dimes and modes. For points, the strongest plays are defis, feods, and fidos — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in modifies produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dime, does, mode, side, and some. For points, the strongest play is fems — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling modifies turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, fed, and ids. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in modifies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, if, is, me, of, and so. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 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 modifies 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.
modifies 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 three senses for modifies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
modifies is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing modifies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is modifies, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from modifies 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 modifies produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.