Hidden inside densities sit densities and destinies, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
densities and destinies tie for the highest Scrabble score from densities at 10 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in densities: one comes from rearranging its letters, and densities itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with destinies. For points, the strongest plays are densities and destinies — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in densities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insisted. For points, the strongest plays are destines, insisted, and tidiness — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in densities produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with insides. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including insides, deities and densest.
Unscrambling densities turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, inside, insist, and sensed. For points, 21 words tie at 7 points, including denies, inside and sensed.
There are 54 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in densities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dines and edits. For points, 30 words tie at 6 points, including diets, dines and edits.
Rearranging the letters in densities produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dine. For points, 31 words tie at 5 points, including dies, diet and dine.
Unscrambling densities turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end and ids. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including die, end and ids.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in densities. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in densities plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in densities 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.
densities 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 two senses for densities. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
densities is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing densities unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are densities and destinies, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from densities 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 densities produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 54 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.