Hidden inside smoulder sit moulders, remoulds, and smoulder, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 295 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
moulders, remoulds, and smoulder tie for the highest Scrabble score from smoulder at 11 points. The top 10 of 295 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in smoulder: two come from rearranging its letters, and smoulder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are moulders, remoulds, and smoulder, 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 smoulder produces 6 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 modules, molders, moulder, remolds, remould, and smolder, 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 smoulder turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with louder and models. For points, the strongest plays are demurs, dorsum, models, module, molder, moulds, moused, odeums, remold, and seldom — 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 74 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smoulder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dorms, drums, lords, loser, louse, lured, and lures. For points, the strongest plays are demos, demur, derms, domes, dorms, doums, drums, melds, model, modes, modus, molds, mould, muled, mured, mused, odeum, and sedum — 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 smoulder produces 104 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lord, lose, loud, lure, mode, mole, and more. For points, the strongest plays are meds, meld, mode, mods, mold, muds, demo, derm, dome, doms, dorm, doum, and drum — 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 smoulder turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, led, mud, old, our, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are dom, dum, med, mod, 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in smoulder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, me, or, so, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, mu, om, 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.
Swap a single tile in smoulder 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.
smoulder 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 three senses for smoulder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
smoulder is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing smoulder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are moulders, remoulds, and smoulder, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from smoulder 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 smoulder produce 295 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 74 five-letter words, 104 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.