Hidden inside remasters sit remasters and streamers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 326 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remasters and streamers tie for the highest Scrabble score from remasters at 11 points. The top 10 of 326 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in remasters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and remasters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are remasters and streamers, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remasters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are armrests, masseter, remaster and 4 more, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in remasters produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests, easters, masters, and smarter. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including masters, smarter and armrest.
Unscrambling remasters turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, easter and erases. For points, 27 words tie at 8 points, including master, meters and steams.
There are 89 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eases, erase and mates. For points, 41 words tie at 7 points, including mates, meats and meets.
Rearranging the letters in remasters produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and ears. For points, 32 words tie at 6 points, including arms, mass and mate.
Unscrambling remasters turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including arm, met and eme.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remasters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in remasters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in remasters 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.
remasters 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.
remasters is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remasters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are remasters and streamers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from remasters 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 remasters produce 326 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 89 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.