directives needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 410 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
directives is the highest-scoring word from directives, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 410 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in directives — and it is directives itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling directives turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is directive, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with verdicts. For points, the strongest plays are decisive, scrieved, serviced, and verdicts — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in directives produces 47 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credits, devices, directs, service, verdict, and visited. For points, the strongest plays are cervids, devices, evicted, scrived, verdict, and veridic — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling directives turns up 86 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, credit, desert, desire, device, direct, and driest. For points, the strongest plays are cervid, device, and viscid — 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 108 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cries, deers, dices, diets, dives, and dries. For points, the strongest play is viced — 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 directives produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dice, dies, diet, dirt, dive, and edit. For points, the strongest play is vice — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling directives turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve, ice, ids, its, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, 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.
3 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in directives plus one additional letter.
directives 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 two senses for directives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
directives is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing directives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is directives, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from directives 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 directives produce 410 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 4 nine-letter words, 15 eight-letter words, 47 seven-letter words, 86 six-letter words, 108 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.