Hidden inside decimals sit camelids, decimals, declaims and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 341 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
camelids, decimals, declaims and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from decimals at 13 points. The top 10 of 341 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in decimals: three come from rearranging its letters, and decimals 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 camelids, decimals, declaims, and medicals, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decimals produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with claimed and medical. For points, the strongest plays are camelid, cladism, claimed, decimal, declaim, and medical — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decimals turns up 36 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with calmed, camels, claims, emails, ladies, mailed, and medals. For points, the strongest plays are calmed, macled, and medics — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 90 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aimed, aisle, aside, calms, camel, and claim. For points, the strongest plays are demic, maced, and medic — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decimals produces 121 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids, aims, calm, came, case, and deal. For points, the strongest plays are acme, calm, came, cami, cams, clam, emic, mace, macs, mica, mice, mics, and scam — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decimals turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, aim, die, ice, ids, and lad. For points, the strongest plays are cam, mac, and mic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, id, is, and me. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, 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.
Swap a single tile in decimals 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.
decimals 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.
Dictionaries record three senses for decimals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
decimals is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decimals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are camelids, decimals, declaims, and medicals, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decimals 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 decimals produce 341 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 36 six-letter words, 90 five-letter words, 121 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.