Hidden inside devil sit devil and lived, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devil and lived tie for the highest Scrabble score from devil at 9 points. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words hiding in devil: one comes from rearranging its letters, and devil itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: devil and lived, worth 9 points apiece in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in devil produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dive, evil, lied, live, and vile. For points, the strongest plays are devi, dive, veld, vide, 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 devil turns up 11 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, led, lid, and lie. 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devil. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id. 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.
Swap a single tile in devil and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
devil 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 seven senses for devil. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
devil is one of two five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devil unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are devil and lived, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from devil 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 devil produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.