Hidden inside directs sit credits and directs, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 152 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
credits and directs tie for the highest Scrabble score from directs at 10 points. The top 10 of 152 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in directs: one comes from rearranging its letters, and directs itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: credits and directs, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling directs turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credit, direct, and driest. For points, the strongest plays are ciders, cisted, credit, dicers, direct, edicts, 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 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directs. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cries, dices, diets, dries, edits, and rices. For points, the strongest plays are cedis, cider, cited, creds, cried, dicer, dices, edict, and riced — 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 directs produces 50 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dice, dies, diet, dirt, edit, ices, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are 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 directs turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ice, ids, its, red, rid, and set. For points, the strongest plays are 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in directs. 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.
Swap a single tile in directs and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
directs 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 twenty-four senses for directs. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
directs is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing directs unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are credits and directs, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from directs 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 directs produce 152 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 50 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.