Hidden inside descriptor sit descriptor and predictors, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 752 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
descriptor and predictors tie for the highest Scrabble score from descriptor at 15 points. The top 10 of 752 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in descriptor: one comes from rearranging its letters, and descriptor itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are descriptor and predictors, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling descriptor turns up 6 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with directors. For points, the strongest plays are depictors and predictor — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in descriptor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with director and predicts. For points, 6 words tie at 13 points, including predicts, depictor and despotic.
Rearranging the letters in descriptor produces 73 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copiers, credits and deposit. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including predict, crisped and depicts.
Unscrambling descriptor turns up 160 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with copied, copier and copies. For points, 7 words tie at 11 points, including copied, depict and percid.
There are 205 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in descriptor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, cords and cores. For points, the strongest play is coped — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in descriptor produces 173 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cops and cord. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including cops, epic and ceps.
Unscrambling descriptor turns up 89 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cop, die and dip. For points, the strongest plays are cep, cop, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in descriptor. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, pi, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in descriptor plus one additional letter.
descriptor 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 two senses for descriptor. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
descriptor is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing descriptor unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are descriptor and predictors, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from descriptor 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 descriptor produce 752 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 20 eight-letter words, 73 seven-letter words, 160 six-letter words, 205 five-letter words, 173 four-letter words, 89 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.