Hidden inside devisers sit devisers, disserve, and dissever, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 161 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devisers, disserve, and dissever tie for the highest Scrabble score from devisers at 12 points. The top 10 of 161 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in devisers: two come from rearranging its letters, and devisers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are devisers, disserve, and dissever, each 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 devisers produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desires. For points, the strongest plays are derives, deviser, devises, diverse, and revised — 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 devisers turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire, drives, series, served, and serves. For points, the strongest plays are derive, devise, divers, drives, reived, served, sieved, versed, and viseed — 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 40 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devisers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dives, dress, dries, drive, rides, and rises. For points, the strongest plays are devis, diver, dives, drive, rived, 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 devisers produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, dive, ever, eves, ride, and rids. For points, the strongest plays are devi, devs, dive, 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 devisers turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve, ids, red, rid, see, and sir. 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devisers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. 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 devisers 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.
devisers 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 one sense for devisers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
devisers is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devisers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are devisers, disserve, and dissever, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from devisers 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 devisers produce 161 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 40 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.