Hidden inside compiler sit compiler and complier, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 182 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
compiler and complier tie for the highest Scrabble score from compiler at 14 points. The top 10 of 182 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in compiler: one comes from rearranging its letters, and compiler itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are compiler and complier, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in compiler produces 7 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are compile, crimple, meropic, and polemic, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling compiler turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copier and police. For points, the strongest play is compel — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compiler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crime, price, and prime. For points, the strongest plays are clomp and crimp — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in compiler produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with clip, come and core. For points, the strongest play is comp — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling compiler turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, ice and lie. For points, 9 words tie at 7 points, including cop, mop and cep.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in compiler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me and or. For points, 9 words tie at 4 points, including me, em and mi.
5 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in compiler plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in compiler 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.
compiler 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for compiler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
compiler is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing compiler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are compiler and complier, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from compiler 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 compiler produce 182 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 32 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.