Hidden inside directions sit directions and discretion, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 797 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
directions and discretion tie for the highest Scrabble score from directions at 13 points. The top 10 of 797 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in directions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and directions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with directions. For points, the strongest plays are directions and discretion — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling directions turns up 11 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with direction. For points, 8 words tie at 12 points, including direction, centroids and cretinoid.
There are 32 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with consider, decision, and editions. For points, 11 words tie at 11 points, including consider, decision and centroid.
Rearranging the letters in directions produces 99 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credits, directs and edition. For points, 28 words tie at 10 points, including credits, directs and noticed.
Unscrambling directions turns up 159 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, coined and costed. For points, 27 words tie at 9 points, including coined, costed and credit.
There are 209 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, codes and coins. For points, 27 words tie at 8 points, including codes, cords and cried.
Rearranging the letters in directions produces 176 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code and coin. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including code, cord and dice.
Unscrambling directions turns up 84 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die and dot. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 25 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and in. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, id and de.
6 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in directions plus one additional letter.
directions 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.
directions is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing directions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are directions and discretion, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from directions 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 directions produce 797 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 11 nine-letter words, 32 eight-letter words, 99 seven-letter words, 159 six-letter words, 209 five-letter words, 176 four-letter words, 84 three-letter words and 25 two-letter words.