plunderers needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 383 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
plunderers is the highest-scoring word from plunderers, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 383 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in plunderers — and it is plunderers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling plunderers turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are plunderer and preluders, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plunderers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are perdures, plunders, preluder and 3 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in plunderers produces 29 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drupels, pedlers, perdues and 9 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling plunderers turns up 58 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nursed. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including drupel, drupes and dupers.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plunderers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, lends and lured. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including speed, spend and deeps.
Rearranging the letters in plunderers produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lend, lure and need. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including peed, deep and peds.
Unscrambling plunderers turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end and led. For points, the strongest plays are dep, dup, ped, and pud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in plunderers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with up and us. For points, the strongest plays are pe and up — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
plunderers 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 4-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 plunderers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
plunderers is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing plunderers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is plunderers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from plunderers 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 plunderers produce 383 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 29 seven-letter words, 58 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.