Hidden inside directed sit credited and directed, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
credited and directed tie for the highest Scrabble score from directed at 12 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in directed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and directed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with directed. For points, the strongest plays are credited and directed — 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 directed produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are decider and decried, 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 directed turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, decide, direct, and edited. For points, the strongest plays are decide and deiced — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, dried, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are ceded and diced — 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 directed produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, dice, died, diet, dirt, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, cred, dice, and iced — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling directed turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, ice, red, rid, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are cee, did, ice, rec, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and it. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in directed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in directed 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.
directed 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 two senses for directed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
directed is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing directed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are credited and directed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from directed 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 directed produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.