Hidden inside directing sit crediting and directing, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 219 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
crediting and directing tie for the highest Scrabble score from directing at 13 points. The top 10 of 219 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in directing: one comes from rearranging its letters, and directing itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with directing. For points, the strongest plays are crediting and directing — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directing. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are indicter, indirect, reciting, and reindict, 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 directing produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editing. For points, the strongest plays are cringed and deicing — 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 directing turns up 41 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, direct, riding, and tinier. For points, the strongest plays are ceding and dicing — 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 45 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, diner, genii, grind, nicer, tiger, and tired. For points, the strongest plays are cider, cited, cried, dicer, edict, genic, icing, 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 directing produces 58 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, dice, diet, dine, dirt, edit, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are 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 directing turns up 37 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, get, ice, net, and red. For points, the strongest play is cig — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directing. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and it. 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 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in directing plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in directing and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
directing 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 directing. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
directing is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing directing unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are crediting and directing, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from directing 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 directing produce 219 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 4 eight-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 41 six-letter words, 45 five-letter words, 58 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.