rearming needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 191 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
rearming is the highest-scoring word from rearming, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 191 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in rearming — and it is rearming itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in rearming produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angrier and earring. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including armiger, germina and mangier.
Unscrambling rearming turns up 25 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remain. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including arming, engram and enigma.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rearming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with anger, image, and range. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including image, gamer and gamin.
Rearranging the letters in rearming produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, earn and gain. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including game, germ and gram.
Unscrambling rearming turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aim and air. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including gam, gem and mag.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rearming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, in, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
6 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in rearming plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rearming 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.
rearming 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.
rearming is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rearming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rearming, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from rearming 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 rearming produce 191 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 11 seven-letter words, 25 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.