Hidden inside directors sit creditors, directors, and recordist, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 403 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
creditors, directors, and recordist tie for the highest Scrabble score from directors at 12 points. The top 10 of 403 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 nine-letter words hiding in directors: two come from rearranging its letters, and directors itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with directors. For points, the strongest plays are creditors, directors, and recordist — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with director. For points, the strongest plays are cordites, creditor, and director — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in directors produces 23 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credits, directs and editors. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including credits, directs and records.
Unscrambling directors turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with costed, credit and direct. For points, 18 words tie at 9 points, including costed, credit and direct.
There are 113 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, cords and cores. For points, 22 words tie at 8 points, including codes, cords and cried.
Rearranging the letters in directors produces 109 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord and core. For points, 12 words tie at 7 points, including code, cord and dice.
Unscrambling directors turns up 60 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and ice. For points, the strongest plays are cod and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, id and de.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in directors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in directors 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.
directors 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.
Dictionaries record five senses for directors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
directors is one of three nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing directors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are creditors, directors, and recordist, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from directors 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 directors produce 403 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 23 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 113 five-letter words, 109 four-letter words, 60 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.