Hidden inside reminders sit misrender, reminders, and rereminds, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 269 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
misrender, reminders, and rereminds tie for the highest Scrabble score from reminders at 12 points. The top 10 of 269 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in reminders: two come from rearranging its letters, and reminders itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminders. For points, the strongest plays are misrender, reminders, and rereminds — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reminders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminder. For points, the strongest plays are deminers, reminder, and reremind — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reminders produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminds. For points, 8 words tie at 10 points, including reminds, deminer and ermined.
Unscrambling reminders turns up 43 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desire, diners, and remind. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including remind, demies and demise.
There are 69 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reminders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dimes and diner. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including dimes, minds and deems.
Rearranging the letters in reminders produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies and dime. For points, 11 words tie at 7 points, including dime, mind and deem.
Unscrambling reminders turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reminders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in reminders plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reminders 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.
reminders 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 three senses for reminders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
reminders is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reminders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are misrender, reminders, and rereminds, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reminders 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 reminders produce 269 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 43 six-letter words, 69 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.