Hidden inside devote sit devote and vetoed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devote and vetoed tie for the highest Scrabble score from devote at 10 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in devote: one comes from rearranging its letters, and devote itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with devote. For points, the strongest plays are devote and vetoed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling devote produces exactly one five-letter word: voted. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in devote produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dove and vote. For points, the strongest play is dove — 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 devote turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, eve, toe, and vet. For points, the strongest play is dev — 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 devote. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, 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 devote 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.
devote 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 devote. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
devote is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devote unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are devote and vetoed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from devote 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 devote produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 1 five-letter word, 7 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.