Hidden inside decoder sit decoder and recoded, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decoder and recoded tie for the highest Scrabble score from decoder at 11 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in decoder: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decoder itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decoder and recoded, 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 decoder turns up 5 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are codder, corded, and decode, 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 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decoder. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ceded and coded, 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 decoder produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord, core, deed, deer, and rode. For points, the strongest plays are cede, code, coed, cord, cred, and deco — 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 decoder turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with odd, red, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decoder. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — 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 decoder and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
decoder 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 decoder. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
decoder is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decoder unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decoder and recoded, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decoder 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 decoder produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 13 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.