Hidden inside tremor sit termor and tremor, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 41 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble TREROM, RTOMER or ROMTRE and you get the same 6 letters as TREMOR: so the words from TREMOR listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
termor and tremor tie for the highest Scrabble score from tremor at 8 points. The top 10 of 41 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in tremor: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tremor itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are termor and tremor, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tremor. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metro and ormer, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in tremor produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with more, term, and tore. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including more, term and mort.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tremor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in tremor and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
tremor 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 four senses for tremor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
tremor is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tremor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are termor and tremor, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tremor 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 tremor produce 41 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.