Hidden inside directer sit directer and redirect, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 115 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
directer and redirect tie for the highest Scrabble score from directer at 11 points. The top 10 of 115 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in directer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and directer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with directer. For points, the strongest plays are directer and redirect — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in directer produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retired. For points, the strongest plays are decrier, recited, and tierced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling directer turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, direct, and retire. For points, the strongest plays are credit, deceit, deicer, direct, and triced — each worth 9 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 directer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, drier, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cered, cider, cited, creed, cried, deice, dicer, edict, and riced — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in directer produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dice, diet, dirt, edit, rice, and ride. 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 directer turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ice, red, rid, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are cee, 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 directer. 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.
Swap a single tile in directer 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.
directer 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.
directer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing directer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are directer and redirect, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from directer 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 directer produce 115 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.