Hidden inside remedial sit remailed and remedial, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remailed and remedial tie for the highest Scrabble score from remedial at 11 points. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in remedial: one comes from rearranging its letters, and remedial itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are remailed and remedial, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in remedial produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with emailed. For points, the strongest plays are emailed, emerald, and limeade — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling remedial turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, dealer and leader. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including admire, mailed and milder.
There are 51 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remedial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aimed, aired and armed. For points, 17 words tie at 8 points, including aimed, armed and dream.
Rearranging the letters in remedial produces 85 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deal and dear. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including dime, made and maid.
Unscrambling remedial turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and air. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remedial. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, id, and me. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
10 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in remedial plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in remedial and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
remedial 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 two senses for remedial. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
remedial is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remedial unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are remailed and remedial, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from remedial 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 remedial produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 51 five-letter words, 85 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.