directory needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 212 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
directory is the highest-scoring word from directory, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 212 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in directory — and it is directory itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with director. For points, the strongest plays are creditor and director — 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 directory produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is rectory, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling directory turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, direct, editor, erotic, and record. For points, the strongest plays are cidery and dioecy — 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 53 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, dirty, drier, dryer, order, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are coyed, cyder, decoy, decry, dicey, and dicty — 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 directory produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with city, code, cord, core, dice, diet, and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are city and cory — each 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 directory turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, die, dot, dry, dye, ice, and red. For points, the strongest plays are coy, cry, and icy — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directory. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, it, or, oy, to, and yo. For points, the strongest plays are oy, ye, and yo — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in directory 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.
directory 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in directory carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for directory. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
directory is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing directory unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is directory, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from directory 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 directory produce 212 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 53 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.