Hidden inside descender sit descender and redescend, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 133 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
descender and redescend tie for the highest Scrabble score from descender at 13 points. The top 10 of 133 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in descender: one comes from rearranging its letters, and descender itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are descender and redescend, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in descender. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decerned and screeded, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in descender produces 12 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decreed, descend, receded, scended, and seceded, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling descender turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with needed and screen. For points, the strongest plays are ceders, censed, creeds, decern, decree, recede, screed, and secede — 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 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in descender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeds, deers, ended, needs, nerds, and scene. For points, the strongest play is ceded — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in descender produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, ends, need, nerd, seed, and seen. For points, the strongest plays are cede and cred — 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 descender turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, red, and see. For points, the strongest plays are cee, rec, and sec — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in descender. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in descender plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in descender 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.
descender 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 three senses for descender. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
descender is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing descender unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are descender and redescend, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from descender 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 descender produce 133 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, 28 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.