Hidden inside designer sit designer, energids, redesign and 2 others, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 264 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
designer, energids, redesign and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from designer at 10 points. The top 10 of 264 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 eight-letter words hiding in designer: four come from rearranging its letters, and designer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designer. For points, the strongest plays are designer, energids, redesign, reedings, and resigned — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in designer produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genders. For points, the strongest plays are dingers, dreeing, energid, engirds, genders, reeding, reigned, sedgier, and seeding — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling designer turns up 52 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, design, desire, diners, gender, grinds, and seeing. For points, the strongest plays are deigns, design, dinger, dinges, dirges, edgers, edgier, engird, gender, girned, greeds, grides, grinds, reding, ridges, ringed, serged, sieged, signed, and singed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in designer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diner, dines, dries, edges, genes, and green. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, dings, dirge, dregs, edger, edges, girds, greed, gride, grids, grind, ridge, and sedge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in designer produces 74 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, digs, dine, edge, ends, and gene. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, dreg, edge, geds, geed, gids, gied, gird, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling designer turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, gee, ids, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in designer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in designer and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
designer 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 2-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 designer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
designer is one of five eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing designer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are designer, energids, redesign, reedings, and resigned, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from designer 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 designer produce 264 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 52 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 74 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.