Hidden inside remains sit marines, remains, and seminar, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 220 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
marines, remains, and seminar tie for the highest Scrabble score from remains at 9 points. The top 10 of 220 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in remains: two come from rearranging its letters, and remains itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remains and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are marines, remains, and seminar — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling remains turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies and remain. For points, the strongest plays are aimers, airmen, amines, animes, armies, inarms, inseam, marine, mesian, miners, namers, ramens, ramies, ramins, remain, remans, samier, and semina — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, means, names, rains, raise, risen, and saner. For points, the strongest plays are aimer, amens, amies, amine, amins, amirs, anime, emirs, inarm, mains, mairs, manes, manis, manse, mares, marse, maser, means, mensa, miens, minae, minas, miner, mines, mires, miser, namer, names, nemas, ramen, ramie, ramin, reams, reman, rimes, simar, and smear — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in remains produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs, amen, arms, earn, ears, and eras. For points, the strongest plays are aims, amen, amie, amin, amir, amis, arms, emir, maes, main, mair, mane, mani, mans, mare, mars, mean, mesa, mien, mina, mine, mire, mirs, mise, name, nema, nims, rami, rams, ream, rems, rime, rims, same, seam, semi, and sima — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling remains turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air, are, arm, ear, era, and man. For points, the strongest plays are aim, ami, arm, ems, ism, mae, man, mar, mas, men, mes, mir, mis, nam, nim, ram, rem, rim, and sim — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remains. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, and mi — 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 remains 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.
remains 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 remains. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
remains is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remains unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are marines, remains, and seminar, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from remains 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 remains produce 220 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.