Hidden inside denounce sit denounce and enounced, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 80 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denounce and enounced tie for the highest Scrabble score from denounce at 11 points. The top 10 of 80 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in denounce: one comes from rearranging its letters, and denounce itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are denounce and enounced, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling denounce produces exactly one seven-letter word: enounce. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling denounce turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with undone. For points, the strongest plays are conned and encode — 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 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denounce. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are coden, coned, coude, deuce, douce, dunce, and educe, 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 denounce produces 23 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cone, done, need, none, nude, and once. For points, the strongest plays are cede, code, coed, cued, deco, and duce — 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 denounce turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, due, end, nun, and one. For points, the strongest plays are cod, cud, 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denounce. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, no, and on. 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 denounce and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
denounce 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record four senses for denounce. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
denounce is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing denounce unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denounce and enounced, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from denounce 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 denounce produce 80 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 23 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.