Hidden inside discerner sit discerner and rescinder, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
discerner and rescinder tie for the highest Scrabble score from discerner at 12 points. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in discerner: one comes from rearranging its letters, and discerner itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are discerner and rescinder, 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 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discerner. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sincerer. For points, the strongest plays are decriers and descrier — 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 discerner produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sincere. For points, the strongest plays are cinders, decerns, decrier, decries, deicers, discern, and rescind — 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 discerner turns up 46 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, desire, diners, nieces, and screen. For points, the strongest plays are ceders, censed, ciders, cinder, creeds, decern, deicer, deices, dicers, edenic, screed, and scried — 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discerner. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cries, deers, dices, diner, dines, and drier. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cedes, cedis, cered, cider, creds, creed, cried, deice, dicer, dices, 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 discerner produces 62 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dice, dies, dine, ends, ices, and need. 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 discerner turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ice, ids, red, rid, and see. For points, the strongest plays are cee, cis, ice, rec, sec, and sic — 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discerner. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. 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 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in discerner plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in discerner 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.
discerner 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.
discerner is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing discerner unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are discerner and rescinder, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from discerner 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 discerner produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 46 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 62 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.