premodern needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 187 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
premodern is the highest-scoring word from premodern, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 187 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in premodern — and it is premodern itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in premodern. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moderner and ponderer, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in premodern produces 2 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: emperor, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling premodern turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with modern, opened, and opener. For points, the strongest plays are deperm, permed, premed, and romped — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in premodern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with demon and order. For points, the strongest play is moped — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in premodern produces 64 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and done. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including poem, prom and mope.
Unscrambling premodern turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, men and mop. For points, the strongest plays are mop and pom — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in premodern. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me and no. For points, 7 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mo.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in premodern plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in premodern and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
premodern 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
premodern is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing premodern unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is premodern, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from premodern 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 premodern produce 187 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 64 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.