Hidden inside renames sit meaners and renames, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
meaners and renames tie for the highest Scrabble score from renames at 9 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in renames: one comes from rearranging its letters, and renames 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 meaners and renames, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling renames turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meaner. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including meaner, ameers and enemas.
There are 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in renames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, erase and means. For points, 23 words tie at 7 points, including means, names and semen.
Rearranging the letters in renames produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, arms and earn. For points, 21 words tie at 6 points, including amen, arms and mean.
Unscrambling renames turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ear. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including arm, man and men.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in renames. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
9 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in renames plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in renames 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.
renames 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 two senses for renames. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
renames is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing renames unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are meaners and renames, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from renames 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 renames produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.