Hidden inside decimetres sit decimeters and decimetres, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 465 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decimeters and decimetres tie for the highest Scrabble score from decimetres at 15 points. The top 10 of 465 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in decimetres: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decimetres itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decimeters and decimetres, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decimetres turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decimeter and decimetre, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimetres. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deemster, demerits, demister, desertic, dimeters, discreet, discrete, remedies, resected, secreted, and seedtime, 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 decimetres produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credits, directs, mercies, and steered. For points, the strongest plays are cermets, emetics, mercies, and metrics — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decimetres turns up 96 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, crimes, desert, desire, direct, driest, and meters. For points, the strongest plays are dermic, emceed, 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 128 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimetres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cries, crime, deers, dices, diets, and dimes. For points, the strongest plays are demic 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 decimetres produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dice, dies, diet, dime, dirt, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are emic, merc, mice, and mics — 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 decimetres turns up 51 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ice, ids, its, met, red, and rid. For points, the strongest play is mic — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decimetres. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, it, 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.
decimetres is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
Dictionaries record one sense for decimetres. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
decimetres is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decimetres unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decimeters and decimetres, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decimetres 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 decimetres produce 465 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 96 six-letter words, 128 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 51 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.