Hidden inside remotes sit emoters, meteors, and remotes, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 141 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
emoters, meteors, and remotes tie for the highest Scrabble score from remotes at 9 points. The top 10 of 141 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in remotes: two come from rearranging its letters, and remotes itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meteors and remotes. For points, the strongest plays are emoters, meteors, and remotes — 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 remotes turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meteor, meters, and remote. For points, the strongest plays are emoter, emotes, merest, meteor, meters, metres, metros, remote, and retems — 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 35 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meets, meter, steer, store, storm, terms, and trees. For points, the strongest plays are emote, meets, meres, meter, metes, metre, metro, mores, morse, morts, moste, motes, omers, remet, retem, smote, storm, teems, terms, tomes, 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 remotes produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meet, more, most, rest, rose, seem, and some. For points, the strongest plays are emes, emos, meet, mere, mete, more, mors, mort, most, mote, mots, omer, rems, roms, seem, seme, some, stem, teem, term, tome, toms, 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 remotes turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, see, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are eme, emo, ems, mes, met, mor, mos, mot, oms, rem, rom, som, and tom — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in remotes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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 remotes 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.
remotes 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 six senses for remotes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
remotes is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing remotes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are emoters, meteors, and remotes, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from remotes 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 remotes produce 141 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 35 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.