Hidden inside strainers sit restrains, strainers, and tarriness, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 447 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
restrains, strainers, and tarriness tie for the highest Scrabble score from strainers at 9 points. The top 10 of 447 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in strainers: two come from rearranging its letters, and strainers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with restrains. For points, the strongest plays are restrains, strainers, and tarriness — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strainers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with restrain and trainers. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including restrain, trainers and artiness.
Rearranging the letters in strainers produces 45 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrests, nastier, and trainer. For points, 45 words tie at 7 points, including arrests, nastier and trainer.
Unscrambling strainers turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, raises and rarest. For points, 87 words tie at 6 points, including arrest, raises and rarest.
There are 121 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strainers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with earns, nests and rains. For points, 121 words tie at 5 points, including earns, nests and rains.
Rearranging the letters in strainers produces 100 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with airs, ants and arts. For points, 100 words tie at 4 points, including airs, ants and arts.
Unscrambling strainers turns up 61 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with air, ant and are. For points, 61 words tie at 3 points, including air, ant and are.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in strainers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with an, as and at. For points, 20 words tie at 2 points, including an, as and at.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in strainers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in strainers 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.
strainers 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 one sense for strainers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
strainers is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing strainers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are restrains, strainers, and tarriness, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from strainers 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 strainers produce 447 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 10 eight-letter words, 45 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 121 five-letter words, 100 four-letter words, 61 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.