Hidden inside devile sit levied and veiled, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEVILE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LEVIED and VEILED.
levied and veiled tie for the highest Scrabble score from devile at 10 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling devile turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are levied and veiled, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devile. If a familiar word is all you need, start with devil and lived. For points, the strongest plays are delve, devel, devil, and lived — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in devile produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dive and evil. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including dive, devi and veld.
Unscrambling devile turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve and led. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
7 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in devile plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in devile and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are levied and veiled, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from devile 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 devile produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.