devilish needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devilish is the highest-scoring word from devilish, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in devilish — and it is devilish itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling devilish turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with devils. For points, the strongest play is shived — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devilish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, devil, dives, hides, lived, lives, and slide. For points, the strongest play is hived — 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 devilish produces 46 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, dish, dive, evil, held, and hide. For points, the strongest plays are hive and shiv — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling devilish turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, hid, his, ids, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are dev, edh, hid, 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devilish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, id, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in devilish plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in devilish 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.
devilish 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 three senses for devilish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
devilish is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devilish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is devilish, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from devilish 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 devilish produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 46 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.