Hidden inside trimer sit retrim and trimer, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 40 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
retrim and trimer tie for the highest Scrabble score from trimer at 8 points. The top 10 of 40 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in trimer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and trimer 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 retrim and trimer, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trimer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are merit, miter, mitre and 3 more, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in trimer produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with item, term and time. For points, 10 words tie at 6 points, including item, term and time.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in trimer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with it and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in trimer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in trimer 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.
trimer 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 trimer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
trimer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing trimer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are retrim and trimer, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from trimer 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 trimer produce 40 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.