responders needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 395 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
responders is the highest-scoring word from responders, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 395 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in responders — and it is responders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling responders turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are depressor, ponderers, and responder, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with responds and response. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including responds, deposers and ponderer.
Rearranging the letters in responders produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dresser, openers and persons. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including pressed, respond and depones.
Unscrambling responders turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with opened, opener and orders. For points, 16 words tie at 9 points, including opened, speeds and spends.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress and drops. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including drops, ponds and posed.
Rearranging the letters in responders produces 99 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with need, nerd and nope. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including peed, pond and deep.
Unscrambling responders turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, nor and one. For points, the strongest plays are dep, ped, and pod — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in responders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no and on. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
responders 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 one sense for responders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
responders is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing responders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is responders, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from responders 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 responders produce 395 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 99 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.