Hidden inside destroyer sit destroyer and roystered, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 271 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
destroyer and roystered tie for the highest Scrabble score from destroyer at 13 points. The top 10 of 271 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in destroyer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and destroyer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are destroyer and roystered, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in destroyer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with restored. For points, the strongest plays are oystered and storeyed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in destroyer produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with destroy and restore. For points, the strongest plays are destroy and stroyed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling destroyer turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, dryers, dryest, orders, rested, and sorted. For points, the strongest plays are dryers, dryest, and redyes — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 75 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in destroyer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dryer, order, sorer, sorry, steer, and store. For points, the strongest plays are derry, dorty, dryer, dyers, redry, redye, reedy, seedy, styed, toyed, and tyred — each 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 destroyer produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, does, dots, dyes, eyes, rest, and rode. For points, the strongest plays are deys, dory, doty, drys, dyer, dyes, eyed, tody, and yods — 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 destroyer turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, dry, dye, eye, red, rod, and see. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dry, dye, and yod — 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 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in destroyer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, oy, so, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 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 destroyer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in destroyer 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.
destroyer 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 1-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 destroyer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
destroyer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing destroyer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are destroyer and roystered, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from destroyer 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 destroyer produce 271 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 75 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.