Hidden inside detickers sit detickers, dreckiest, and stickered, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 375 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
detickers, dreckiest, and stickered tie for the highest Scrabble score from detickers at 16 points. The top 10 of 375 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in detickers: two come from rearranging its letters, and detickers 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 detickers, dreckiest, and stickered, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detickers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deticker and tickseed, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in detickers produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credits, directs, sticker, and tricked. For points, the strongest plays are deckers, deticks, dickers, sticked, and tricked — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling detickers turns up 66 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, desert, desire, direct, driest, rested, and risked. For points, the strongest plays are decker, detick, dicker, drecks, recked, ricked, sicked, and ticked — 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 110 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detickers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cries, decks, deers, dices, dicks, and diets. For points, the strongest plays are decks, dicks, and dreck — 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 detickers produces 105 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deck, deer, desk, dice, dick, dies, and diet. For points, the strongest plays are deck and dick — 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 detickers turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ice, ids, its, kid, kit, and red. For points, the strongest play is ick — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in detickers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest play is ki — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in detickers 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.
detickers 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.
detickers is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing detickers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are detickers, dreckiest, and stickered, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from detickers 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 detickers produce 375 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 66 six-letter words, 110 five-letter words, 105 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.