Hidden inside desiccant sit accidents and desiccant, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 374 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
accidents and desiccant tie for the highest Scrabble score from desiccant at 14 points. The top 10 of 374 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in desiccant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and desiccant itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accidents. For points, the strongest plays are accidents and desiccant — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in desiccant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accident and distance. For points, the strongest play is accident — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in desiccant produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accents, candies, and instead. For points, the strongest play is scandic — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling desiccant turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with accent, dances, and nicest. For points, the strongest plays are sicced and ticced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 101 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in desiccant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, aside, cents, dance, dates, and dices. For points, the strongest play is cacti — 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 desiccant produces 115 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, ants, cans, case, and cast. For points, the strongest play is ceca — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling desiccant turns up 63 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, and, ant, ate, and can. For points, the strongest play is cad — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in desiccant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in desiccant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in desiccant 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.
desiccant 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for desiccant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
desiccant is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing desiccant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are accidents and desiccant, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from desiccant 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 desiccant produce 374 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 101 five-letter words, 115 four-letter words, 63 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.