Hidden inside remarks sit markers and remarks, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
markers and remarks tie for the highest Scrabble score from remarks at 13 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in remarks: one comes from rearranging its letters, and remarks itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remarks. For points, the strongest plays are markers and remarks — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling remarks turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with makers and remark. For points, the strongest plays are makers, marker, masker, and remark — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remarks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with maker, makes, and marks. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including maker, makes and marks.
Rearranging the letters in remarks produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, ears and eras. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including make, mark and mask.
Unscrambling remarks turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and ask. For points, 6 words tie at 7 points, including ask, ark and kae.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remarks. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, and me. For points, the strongest play is ka — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in remarks plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in remarks 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.
remarks 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 four senses for remarks. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
remarks is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remarks unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are markers and remarks, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from remarks 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 remarks produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.