Hidden inside direction sit cretinoid and direction, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 310 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
cretinoid and direction tie for the highest Scrabble score from direction at 12 points. The top 10 of 310 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in direction: one comes from rearranging its letters, and direction itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with direction. For points, the strongest plays are cretinoid and direction — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in direction. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are centroid, doctrine, indicter, indictor, indirect, 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 direction produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with edition and noticed. For points, the strongest plays are cordite, crinoid, ctenoid, deontic, dictier, diction, dineric, ericoid, identic, incited, and noticed — 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 direction turns up 49 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, credit, direct, editor, erotic, ironic, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are cinder, citied, codein, coedit, coined, corned, credit, dicier, direct, docent, indict, nordic, 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 68 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in direction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, diner, idiot, nicer, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are cider, cited, coden, coder, coned, cored, coted, credo, cried, decor, dicer, dicot, edict, iodic, 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 direction produces 90 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cone, cord, core, and corn. For points, the strongest plays are cedi, code, coed, cord, cred, deco, dice, iced, and odic — 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 direction turns up 50 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die, dot, end, ice, net, and nor. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in direction. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, it, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, 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.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in direction plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in direction 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.
direction 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 nine senses for direction. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
direction is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing direction unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are cretinoid and direction, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from direction 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 direction produce 310 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 68 five-letter words, 90 four-letter words, 50 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.