remnants needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 235 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remnants is the highest-scoring word from remnants, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 235 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in remnants — and it is remnants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in remnants produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manners. For points, the strongest plays are manners, martens, remnant, sarment, and smarten — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling remnants turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with manner and master. For points, the strongest plays are aments, armets, manner, mantes, marten, master, maters, matres, namers, ramens, ramets, remans, stamen, stream, and tamers — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remnants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, mates, means, meant, meats, names, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are amens, ament, armet, manes, manse, mares, marse, marts, maser, mater, mates, means, meant, meats, mensa, menta, namer, names, nemas, ramen, ramet, reams, reman, satem, smart, smear, steam, tamer, tames, teams, terms, trams, and trems — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in remnants produces 79 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, ants, arms, arts, earn, ears, and east. For points, the strongest plays are amen, arms, maes, mane, mans, mare, mars, mart, mast, mate, mats, mean, meat, mesa, meta, name, nema, rams, ream, rems, same, seam, stem, tame, tams, team, term, tram, and trem — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling remnants turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ant, are, arm, art, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are arm, ems, mae, man, mar, mas, mat, men, mes, met, nam, ram, rem, and tam — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remnants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in remnants 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.
remnants 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 3-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 remnants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
remnants is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remnants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is remnants, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from remnants 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 remnants produce 235 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 79 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.