devising needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 127 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devising is the highest-scoring word from devising, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 127 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in devising — and it is devising itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in devising produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is divings, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling devising turns up 13 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with design, diving, inside, and signed. For points, the strongest play is diving — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devising. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines, dives, genii, given, gives, and veins. For points, the strongest plays are devis, dives, given, gives, ivied, vends, vined, 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 devising produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, digs, dine, dive, ends, give, and send. For points, the strongest plays are devi, devs, dive, give, vend, vide, vids, vied, and vigs — 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 devising turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, ids, and sin. For points, the strongest plays are dev, veg, vid, and vig — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devising. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in devising plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in devising 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.
devising 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 3-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 devising. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
devising is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devising unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is devising, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from devising 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 devising produce 127 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 13 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.