Hidden inside decries sit decries and deicers, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decries and deicers tie for the highest Scrabble score from decries at 10 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in decries: one comes from rearranging its letters, and decries 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 decries and deicers, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decries turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire. For points, the strongest plays are ceders, ciders, creeds, deicer, deices, dicers, screed, and scried — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cries, deers, dices, dries, rices, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cedes, cedis, cered, cider, creds, creed, cried, deice, dicer, dices, and riced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decries produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dice, dies, ices, rice, ride, and rids. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, cred, dice, disc, and iced — 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 decries turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ice, ids, red, rid, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, ice, rec, sec, and sic — each worth 5 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 decries. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — 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 decries 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.
decries 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 decries. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
decries is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decries unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are decries and deicers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from decries 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 decries produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 12 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.