Hidden inside remelts sit melters, remelts, resmelt and 1 other, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
melters, remelts, resmelt and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from remelts at 9 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 seven-letter words hiding in remelts: three come from rearranging its letters, and remelts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are melters, remelts, resmelt, and smelter, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remelts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, melts and meter. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including meets, melts and meter.
Rearranging the letters in remelts produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with else, lets and meet. For points, 15 words tie at 6 points, including meet, melt and seem.
Unscrambling remelts turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with let, met, see, and set. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including met, elm and eme.
7 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in remelts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in remelts 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.
remelts 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.
remelts is one of four seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remelts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are melters, remelts, resmelt, and smelter, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from remelts 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 remelts produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.