Hidden inside tremors sit termors and tremors, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 110 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
termors and tremors tie for the highest Scrabble score from tremors at 9 points. The top 10 of 110 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in tremors: one comes from rearranging its letters, and tremors 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 termors and tremors, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling tremors turns up 9 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are metros, ormers, termor, and tremor, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tremors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sorer, store, storm, and terms. For points, 13 words tie at 7 points, including storm, terms and metro.
Rearranging the letters in tremors produces 34 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with more, most and rest. For points, 16 words tie at 6 points, including more, most and some.
Unscrambling tremors turns up 30 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with met, set, and toe. For points, 12 words tie at 5 points, including met, emo and ems.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in tremors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mo, and om — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in tremors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in tremors 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.
tremors 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 tremors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
tremors is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing tremors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are termors and tremors, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from tremors 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 tremors produce 110 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 34 four-letter words, 30 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.