Hidden inside rudiments sit denturism and rudiments, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 554 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denturism and rudiments tie for the highest Scrabble score from rudiments at 12 points. The top 10 of 554 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in rudiments: one comes from rearranging its letters, and rudiments itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denturism and rudiments, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rudiments. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diestrum, mistuned, rudiment, and unmitred, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rudiments produces 39 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with minutes and reminds. For points, the strongest plays are dustmen, minders, mindset, minuted, mistend, mutined, reminds, tediums, unrimed, and untimed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rudiments turns up 94 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diners, driest, duties, minute, nudest, nursed, and remind. For points, the strongest plays are demist, demits, demurs, denims, dermis, dimers, medius, minder, minted, misted, mitred, murids, musted, nudism, remind, and tedium — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 153 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rudiments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dimes, diner, dines, dries, drums, and edits. For points, the strongest plays are deism, demit, demur, denim, derms, dimer, dimes, disme, drums, mends, midst, minds, mined, mired, mured, murid, mused, muted, rimed, sedum, timed, and tumid — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in rudiments produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with menu, mind, mine, mint, muds, must, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are meds, mend, mids, mind, muds, derm, dime, dims, drum, and idem — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling rudiments turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due, end, ids, its, men, and met. For points, the strongest plays are dim, dum, med, mid, and mud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in rudiments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, it, me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in rudiments plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in rudiments and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
rudiments 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 rudiments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
rudiments is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing rudiments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denturism and rudiments, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from rudiments 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 rudiments produce 554 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 39 seven-letter words, 94 six-letter words, 153 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.