remainders needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 701 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remainders is the highest-scoring word from remainders, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 701 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in remainders — and it is remainders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling remainders turns up 5 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminders. For points, 5 words tie at 12 points, including reminders, misrender and remainder.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remainders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remained and reminder. For points, 12 words tie at 11 points, including remained, reminder and admirers.
Rearranging the letters in remainders produces 77 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admires, errands and maidens. For points, 31 words tie at 10 points, including admires, maidens and married.
Unscrambling remainders turns up 155 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, armies and dearer. For points, 39 words tie at 9 points, including admire, dreams and maiden.
There are 185 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remainders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aired and armed. For points, 38 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, armed and damns.
Rearranging the letters in remainders produces 156 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, aims and airs. For points, 20 words tie at 7 points, including made, maid and mind.
Unscrambling remainders turns up 78 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and aim. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remainders. 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.
remainders 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 remainders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
remainders is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remainders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is remainders, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from remainders 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 remainders produce 701 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 5 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 77 seven-letter words, 155 six-letter words, 185 five-letter words, 156 four-letter words, 78 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.