Hidden inside seminar sit marines, remains, and seminar, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 220 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
marines, remains, and seminar tie for the highest Scrabble score from seminar at 9 points. The top 10 of 220 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in seminar: two come from rearranging its letters, and seminar itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remains and seminar. For points, the strongest plays are marines, remains, and seminar — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling seminar turns up 21 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with armies and remain. For points, 18 words tie at 8 points, including armies, remain and aimers.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seminar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, means and names. For points, 37 words tie at 7 points, including means, names and aimer.
Rearranging the letters in seminar produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aims, airs and amen. For points, 37 words tie at 6 points, including aims, amen and arms.
Unscrambling seminar turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aim, air and are. For points, 19 words tie at 5 points, including aim, arm and man.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in seminar. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, an and as. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
19 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in seminar plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in seminar 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.
seminar 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 two senses for seminar. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
seminar is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing seminar unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are marines, remains, and seminar, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from seminar 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 seminar produce 220 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 21 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.