Hidden inside decenters sit decenters and decentres, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decenters and decentres tie for the highest Scrabble score from decenters at 12 points. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in decenters: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decenters 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 decenters and decentres, 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 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decenters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resented. For points, the strongest plays are centered, decenter, decentre, resected, screened, secerned, and secreted — each 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 decenters produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, entered, and steered. For points, the strongest plays are centred, credent, crested, decerns, decrees, descent, erected, recedes, scented, and seceder — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decenters turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, decent, desert, enters, recent, rented, and resent. For points, the strongest plays are ceders, censed, creeds, decent, decern, decree, recede, screed, and secede — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 59 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decenters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, deers, enter, needs, nerds, rents, and scene. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cedes, cered, creds, creed, and scend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decenters produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, deer, ends, need, nerd, nest, and nets. For points, the strongest plays are cede and cred — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decenters turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, net, red, see, set, and ten. For points, the strongest plays are cee, rec, sec, and tec — 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decenters. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in decenters plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decenters 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.
decenters 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.
decenters is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decenters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decenters and decentres, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decenters 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 decenters produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 59 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.