Hidden inside deigns sit deigns, design, dinges and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 74 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deigns, design, dinges and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from deigns at 8 points. The top 10 of 74 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in deigns: four come from rearranging its letters, and deigns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design and signed. For points, the strongest plays are deigns, design, dinges, signed, and singed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deigns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, and dings — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deigns produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs, dine, ends, send, side, and sign. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, geds, gids, and gied — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deigns turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, ids, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deigns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, 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 deigns and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
deigns 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 2-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 deigns. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
deigns is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deigns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deigns, design, dinges, signed, and singed, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deigns 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 deigns produce 74 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.