Hidden inside decide sit decide and deiced, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 20 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decide and deiced tie for the highest Scrabble score from decide at 10 points. The top 10 of 20 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in decide: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decide itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decide. For points, the strongest plays are decide and deiced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decide. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ceded and diced, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decide produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, dice, and died. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, dice, and iced — 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 decide turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cee, did, and ice — 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 3 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decide. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, 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 decide and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
decide 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for decide. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
decide is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decide unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decide and deiced, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decide 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 decide produce 20 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 3 two-letter words.