desistance needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 618 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
desistance is the highest-scoring word from desistance, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 618 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in desistance — and it is desistance itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling desistance turns up 3 nine-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: distances, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in desistance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distance. For points, the strongest plays are acidness, danciest, descants, descents, discants, and distance — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in desistance produces 70 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, disease, easiest, and instead. For points, the strongest plays are ascends, candies, dacites, decanes, decants, deceits, descant, descent, dicasts, discant, discase, dissect, enacted, encased, enticed, incased, scanted, and scented — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling desistance turns up 119 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ceased, ceases, dances, decent, denies, nicest, and nieces. For points, the strongest plays are ascend, asdics, cadent, cadets, canids, canted, ceased, censed, cessed, cisted, cnidae, dacite, dances, decane, decani, decans, decant, deceit, decent, deices, dicast, edenic, edicts, nicads, and scends — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 164 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in desistance. If a familiar word is all you need, start with saint, sands, scene, scent, seats, seeds, and sends. For points, the strongest plays are scads, scend, acids, acned, acted, asdic, cades, cadet, cadis, caids, caned, canid, cased, cedes, cedis, cited, cnida, daces, dance, decan, deice, dices, dicta, discs, edict, and nicad — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in desistance produces 147 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 plays are aced, acid, cade, cadi, cads, caid, cede, cedi, dace, dice, disc, iced, and scad — 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 desistance turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, and, ant, ass, and ate. 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 desistance. 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 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in desistance plus one additional letter.
desistance 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.
desistance is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing desistance unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is desistance, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from desistance 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 desistance produce 618 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 21 eight-letter words, 70 seven-letter words, 119 six-letter words, 164 five-letter words, 147 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.