Hidden inside reminder sit reminder and reremind, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
reminder and reremind tie for the highest Scrabble score from reminder at 11 points. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in reminder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reminder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reminder. For points, the strongest plays are reminder and reremind — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in reminder produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deminer and ermined, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling reminder turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remind. For points, the strongest plays are mender, minder, remend, and remind — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reminder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner and drier. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including denim, dimer and emend.
Rearranging the letters in reminder produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dime and dine. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including dime, mind and deem.
Unscrambling reminder turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and men. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reminder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in reminder plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in reminder 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.
reminder 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 reminder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
reminder is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reminder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are reminder and reremind, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reminder 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 reminder produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.