Hidden inside directness sit directness and stridences, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 624 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
directness and stridences tie for the highest Scrabble score from directness at 13 points. The top 10 of 624 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in directness: one comes from rearranging its letters, and directness itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are directness and stridences, 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 directness turns up 6 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with residents and sincerest. For points, the strongest play is stridence — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 25 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resident and resisted. For points, the strongest plays are descents, descries, desertic, discerns, discreet, discrete, and rescinds — 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 directness produces 82 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with centers, credits, deserts, desires, dessert, directs, and entries. For points, the strongest plays are centred, cinders, credent, credits, crested, deceits, decerns, decries, deicers, descent, directs, discern, dissect, enticed, recited, rescind, scented, screeds, and tierced — 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 directness turns up 152 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, credit, crises, decent, denies, desert, and desire. For points, the strongest plays are ceders, censed, cessed, ciders, cinder, cisted, credit, creeds, deceit, decent, decern, deicer, deices, dicers, direct, edenic, edicts, scends, screed, scried, 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 163 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cried, cries, deers, dices, diets, and diner. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cedes, cedis, cered, cider, cited, creds, creed, cried, deice, dicer, dices, discs, edict, riced, and scend — 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 directness produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, deer, dice, dies, diet, dine, and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cedi, cred, dice, disc, and iced — 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 directness turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ice, ids, its, net, and red. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, ice, rec, sec, sic, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directness. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, 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 directness plus one additional letter.
directness 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 directness. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
directness is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing directness unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are directness and stridences, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from directness 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 directness produce 624 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 25 eight-letter words, 82 seven-letter words, 152 six-letter words, 163 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.