Hidden inside decemviri sit decemviri and vermicide, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 17 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decemviri and vermicide tie for the highest Scrabble score from decemviri at 17 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in decemviri: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decemviri 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 decemviri and vermicide, each worth 17 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling decemviri produces exactly one eight-letter word: decemvir. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decemviri produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is viremic, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decemviri turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with device. For points, the strongest plays are cervid and device — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decemviri. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, crime, and drive. For points, the strongest play is viced — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decemviri produces 43 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dice, dime, dive, ever, mice, and rice. For points, the strongest play is vice — 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 decemviri turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve, ice, red, and rid. For points, the strongest play is vim — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decemviri. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in decemviri plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decemviri 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.
decemviri 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
decemviri is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decemviri unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decemviri and vermicide, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decemviri 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 decemviri produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 43 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.