Hidden inside designers sit designers and redesigns, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 342 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
designers and redesigns tie for the highest Scrabble score from designers at 11 points. The top 10 of 342 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in designers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and designers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designers. For points, the strongest plays are designers and redesigns — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in designers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designer and dressing. For points, the strongest plays are designer, dressing, edginess, energids, redesign, reedings, and resigned — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in designers produces 30 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designs, desires, genders, and singers. For points, the strongest plays are designs, digress, dingers, dreeing, energid, engirds, genders, reeding, reigned, sedgier, and seeding — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling designers turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, design, desire, diners, gender, grinds, and seeing. For points, the strongest plays are deigns, design, dinger, dinges, dirges, edgers, edgier, engird, gender, girned, greeds, grides, grinds, reding, ridges, ringed, sedges, serged, sieged, 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 84 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in designers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diner, dines, dress, dries, edges, and genes. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, dings, dirge, dregs, edger, edges, girds, greed, gride, grids, grind, ridge, and sedge — 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 designers produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, digs, dine, edge, ends, and gene. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, dreg, edge, geds, geed, gids, gied, gird, and grid — 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 designers turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, gee, ids, red, and rid. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in designers. 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.
8 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in designers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in designers and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
designers 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 five senses for designers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
designers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing designers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are designers and redesigns, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from designers 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 designers produce 342 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 30 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 84 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.