Hidden inside desires sit desires and resides, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 95 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
desires and resides tie for the highest Scrabble score from desires at 8 points. The top 10 of 95 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in desires: one comes from rearranging its letters, and desires itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desires. For points, the strongest plays are desires and resides — each 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 desires turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire and series. For points, the strongest plays are desire, dieses, eiders, reside, resids, seders, and seised — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in desires. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress, dries, rides, rises, seeds, and sides. For points, the strongest plays are deers, desis, drees, dress, dries, eider, redes, reeds, resid, rides, seder, seeds, sered, sides, 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 desires produces 32 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, ride, rids, rise, seed, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are deer, dees, dere, desi, dies, dire, diss, 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 desires turns up 20 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 desires. 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.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in desires plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in desires and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
desires 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 desires carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record six senses for desires. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
desires is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing desires unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are desires and resides, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from desires 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 desires produce 95 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 32 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.