Hidden inside reclaimed sit declaimer and reclaimed, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 385 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
declaimer and reclaimed tie for the highest Scrabble score from reclaimed at 14 points. The top 10 of 385 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in reclaimed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reclaimed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are declaimer and reclaimed, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reclaimed. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ceramide and medicare, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reclaimed produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claimed, cleared and declare. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including claimed, medical and amerced.
Unscrambling reclaimed turns up 53 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, calmed and cereal. For points, the strongest plays are calmed, dermic, and macled — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 96 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reclaimed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aired and armed. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reclaimed produces 123 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, calm and came. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including calm, came and cram.
Unscrambling reclaimed turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and air. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reclaimed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, id, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reclaimed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reclaimed 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.
reclaimed 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for reclaimed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
reclaimed is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reclaimed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are declaimer and reclaimed, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reclaimed 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 reclaimed produce 385 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 53 six-letter words, 96 five-letter words, 123 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.