deviants needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 324 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deviants is the highest-scoring word from deviants, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 324 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in deviants — and it is deviants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deviants produces 15 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with instead, invades, and naivest. For points, the strongest plays are advents, datives, deviant, invades, and vistaed — 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 deviants turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise, invade, invest, native, and navies. For points, the strongest plays are advent, advise, dative, davens, davies, davits, divans, divest, invade, staved, viands, and visaed — 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 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deviants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dates, diets, dines, dives, edits, and ideas. For points, the strongest plays are daven, davit, devas, devis, divan, divas, dives, saved, vaned, vends, viand, vined, and vised — 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 deviants produces 110 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, ants, date, dies, diet, dine, and dive. For points, the strongest plays are avid, deva, devi, devs, diva, dive, vend, vide, vids, and vied — 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 deviants turns up 65 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, and, ant, ate, die, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deviants. 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.
Swap a single tile in deviants and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
deviants 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for deviants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
deviants is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deviants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deviants, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deviants 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 deviants produce 324 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 15 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 110 four-letter words, 65 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.