Hidden inside decreed sit decreed and receded, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decreed and receded tie for the highest Scrabble score from decreed at 11 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in decreed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decreed 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 decreed and receded, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decreed. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ceded, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in decreed produces 10 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed and deer. For points, the strongest plays are cede and cred — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decreed. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in decreed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decreed 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.
decreed 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 one sense for decreed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
decreed is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decreed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decreed and receded, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decreed 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 decreed produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 10 four-letter words, 6 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.