Hidden inside remoras sit remoras and roamers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remoras and roamers tie for the highest Scrabble score from remoras at 9 points. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in remoras: one comes from rearranging its letters, and remoras 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 remoras and roamers, 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 remoras turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are armers, armors, ormers, ramose, rearms, remora, roamer, and seroma, 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remoras. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorer. For points, the strongest plays are armer, armor, mares, marse, maser, morae, moras, mores, morse, omers, ormer, reams, rearm, roams, and smear — 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 remoras produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, ears, eras, more, rare, rose, and same. For points, the strongest plays are arms, emos, maes, mare, mars, mesa, moas, mora, more, mors, omas, omer, rams, ream, rems, roam, roms, same, seam, soma, and some — 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 remoras turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm, ear, era, and sea. For points, the strongest plays are arm, emo, ems, mae, mar, mas, mes, moa, mor, mos, oma, oms, ram, rem, rom, and som — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remoras. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, me, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mo, and om — 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 remoras 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.
remoras 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 one sense for remoras. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
remoras is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remoras unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are remoras and roamers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from remoras 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 remoras produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.