remainder needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 288 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remainder is the highest-scoring word from remainder, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 288 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in remainder — and it is remainder itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remainder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remained and reminder. For points, the strongest plays are dreamier, remained, reminder, and reremind — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in remainder produces 18 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with married and readier. For points, 12 words tie at 10 points, including married, admirer and amender.
Unscrambling remainder turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, dearer and earned. For points, 17 words tie at 9 points, including admire, maiden and remind.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remainder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aired and armed. For points, 23 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, armed and dream.
Rearranging the letters in remainder produces 76 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, damn and dare. For points, 15 words tie at 7 points, including damn, dime and made.
Unscrambling remainder turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and air. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remainder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in remainder plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in remainder 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.
remainder 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 five senses for remainder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
remainder is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remainder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is remainder, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from remainder 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 remainder produce 288 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 18 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 76 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.