Hidden inside decanters sit decanters and descanter, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 605 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decanters and descanter tie for the highest Scrabble score from decanters at 12 points. The top 10 of 605 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in decanters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decanters itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decanters and descanter, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decanters. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ascender, cantered, castered and 4 more, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decanters produces 59 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with catered, centers and created. For points, 23 words tie at 10 points, including catered, created and dancers.
Unscrambling decanters turns up 138 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with caters, ceased and center. For points, 28 words tie at 9 points, including ceased, dancer and dances.
There are 173 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decanters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, cards and cared. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including acted, cards and cared.
Rearranging the letters in decanters produces 138 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, ants and arts. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including card, aced and cade.
Unscrambling decanters turns up 66 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and and. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decanters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in decanters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decanters and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
decanters 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 one sense for decanters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
decanters is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decanters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decanters and descanter, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decanters 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 decanters produce 605 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 59 seven-letter words, 138 six-letter words, 173 five-letter words, 138 four-letter words, 66 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.