devious needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 73 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devious is the highest-scoring word from devious, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 73 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in devious — and it is devious itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling devious produces exactly one six-letter word: videos. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dives and video. For points, the strongest plays are devis, dives, doves, video, vised, and voids — 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 devious produces 24 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dive, does, dove, side, sued, and used. For points, the strongest plays are devi, devs, dive, dove, vide, vids, vied, and void — 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 devious turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due, ids, sue, and use. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devious. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, so, and us. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — 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 devious and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
devious 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 three senses for devious. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
devious is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devious unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is devious, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from devious 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 devious produce 73 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 8 five-letter words, 24 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.