Hidden inside decipher sit ciphered and decipher, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 140 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
ciphered and decipher tie for the highest Scrabble score from decipher at 16 points. The top 10 of 140 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in decipher: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decipher 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 ciphered and decipher, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decipher produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are cepheid, chirped, and perched, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling decipher turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with recipe. For points, the strongest play is peched — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decipher. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cheer, cried and hired. For points, the strongest plays are cheep, chirp, and perch — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decipher produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with chip, deep and deer. For points, the strongest plays are chip and pech — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling decipher turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dip and her. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including hip, chi and hep.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decipher. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, and id. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, and hi — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in decipher plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decipher 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.
decipher 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 two senses for decipher. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
decipher is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decipher unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are ciphered and decipher, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decipher 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 decipher produce 140 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.