Hidden inside remands sit damners and remands, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 185 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
damners and remands tie for the highest Scrabble score from remands at 10 points. The top 10 of 185 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in remands: one comes from rearranging its letters, and remands 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 damners and remands, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling remands turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dreams. For points, the strongest plays are amends, damner, dermas, desman, dreams, madres, menads, and remand — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 49 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armed, damns, dares, dears, dream, earns, and means. For points, the strongest plays are admen, amend, armed, dames, damns, derma, derms, drams, dream, madre, maned, meads, menad, mends, and named — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in remands produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, arms, damn, dare, dear, earn, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are dame, damn, dams, derm, dram, made, mads, mead, meds, and mend — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling remands turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, and, are, arm, ear, end, and era. For points, the strongest plays are dam, mad, and med — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remands. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, an, as, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in remands 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.
remands 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 three senses for remands. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
remands is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remands unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are damners and remands, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from remands 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 remands produce 185 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 49 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.