Hidden inside desire sit desire, eiders, and reside, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
desire, eiders, and reside tie for the highest Scrabble score from desire at 7 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in desire: two come from rearranging its letters, and desire itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire. For points, the strongest plays are desire, eiders, and reside — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in desire. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dries, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are deers, drees, dries, eider, redes, reeds, resid, rides, seder, sered, and sired — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in desire produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, ride, rids, rise, seed, and side. For points, the strongest plays are deer, dees, dere, desi, dies, dire, dree, eide, ides, ired, rede, reds, reed, ride, rids, seed, and side — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling desire turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, red, rid, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are dee, die, dis, eds, ids, red, and rid — each worth 4 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 desire. 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.
40 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in desire plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in desire and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
desire 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in desire carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for desire. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
desire is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing desire unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are desire, eiders, and reside, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from desire 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 desire produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.