Hidden inside devourer sit devourer and overrude, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 76 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
devourer and overrude tie for the highest Scrabble score from devourer at 12 points. The top 10 of 76 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in devourer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and devourer 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 devourer and overrude, 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 devourer produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with overdue. For points, the strongest plays are overdue, redrove, and verdure — 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 devourer turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are devour, drover, and overed, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in devourer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drove, order, and ruder. For points, the strongest plays are drove and roved — 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 devourer produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dove, ever, over, rode, and rude. 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 devourer turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, eve, our, red, and rod. 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 devourer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and or. 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 devourer 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.
devourer 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 one sense for devourer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
devourer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing devourer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are devourer and overrude, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from devourer 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 devourer produce 76 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.