Hidden inside descried sit deciders and descried, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 139 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deciders and descried tie for the highest Scrabble score from descried at 12 points. The top 10 of 139 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in descried: one comes from rearranging its letters, and descried 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 deciders and descried, 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 descried produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decides. For points, the strongest plays are decider, decides, and decried — 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 descried turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with decide and desire. For points, the strongest plays are decide, deiced, and disced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in descried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cries, deeds, deers, dices, dried, and dries. For points, the strongest plays are ceded and diced — each 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 descried produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, dice, died, dies, ices, and rice. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, cred, dice, disc, and iced — 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 descried turns up 25 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, ice, ids, red, rid, and see. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, did, ice, rec, sec, and sic — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in descried. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, 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 descried 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.
descried 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.
descried is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing descried unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deciders and descried, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from descried 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 descried produce 139 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 25 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.