Hidden inside steamer sit remates, reteams, and steamer, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 197 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
remates, reteams, and steamer tie for the highest Scrabble score from steamer at 9 points. The top 10 of 197 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in steamer: two come from rearranging its letters, and steamer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are remates, reteams, and steamer, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling steamer turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with easter, master, and meters. For points, 16 words tie at 8 points, including master, meters and ameers.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steamer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with erase, mates and meats. For points, 30 words tie at 7 points, including mates, meats and meets.
Rearranging the letters in steamer produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arms, arts and ears. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including arms, mate and meat.
Unscrambling steamer turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, arm and art. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including arm, met and eme.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in steamer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with am, as, at, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
21 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in steamer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in steamer 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.
steamer 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for steamer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
steamer is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing steamer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are remates, reteams, and steamer, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from steamer 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 steamer produce 197 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.