remedies needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remedies is the highest-scoring word from remedies, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in remedies — and it is remedies itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in remedies produces 6 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are emersed, medrese, redeems, and remised, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling remedies turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire and seemed. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including seemed, demies and demise.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remedies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dimes, dries, and rides. For points, 11 words tie at 8 points, including dimes, deems and deism.
Rearranging the letters in remedies produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies and dime. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including dime, deem and deme.
Unscrambling remedies turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids and red. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remedies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in remedies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in remedies 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.
remedies 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 remedies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
remedies is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remedies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is remedies, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from remedies 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 remedies produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.