Hidden inside redeems sit emersed, medrese, and redeems, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DEEEMRS, SEREMED or DREESEM and you get the same 7 letters as REDEEMS: so the words from REDEEMS listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
emersed, medrese, and redeems tie for the highest Scrabble score from redeems at 10 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in redeems: two come from rearranging its letters, and redeems 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 emersed, medrese, and redeems, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling redeems turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with seemed. For points, the strongest plays are merdes, redeem, and seemed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redeems. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including deems, demes and derms.
Rearranging the letters in redeems produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, seed, and seem. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including deem, deme and derm.
6 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in redeems plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in redeems 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.
redeems 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record six senses for redeems. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
redeems is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redeems unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emersed, medrese, and redeems, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redeems 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 redeems produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 15 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.