Hidden inside discerners sit discerners and rescinders, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 336 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
discerners and rescinders tie for the highest Scrabble score from discerners at 13 points. The top 10 of 336 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in discerners: one comes from rearranging its letters, and discerners 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 discerners and rescinders, 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 discerners turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are descriers, 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 12 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discerners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sincerer. For points, the strongest plays are decriers, descrier, descries, discerns, 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 discerners produces 40 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desires, dresser, screens, and sincere. For points, the strongest plays are cinders, decerns, decrier, decries, deicers, discern, rescind, and screeds — 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 discerners turns up 71 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with crises, denies, desire, diners, nieces, recess, and scenes. For points, the strongest plays are ceders, censed, cessed, ciders, cinder, creeds, decern, deicer, deices, dicers, edenic, scends, 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 85 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discerners. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cried, cries, deers, dices, diner, dines, and dress. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cedes, cedis, cered, cider, creds, creed, cried, deice, dicer, dices, discs, 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 discerners produces 75 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 discerners turns up 37 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 discerners. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in discerners plus one additional letter.
discerners 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.
discerners is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing discerners unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are discerners and rescinders, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from discerners 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 discerners produce 336 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 12 eight-letter words, 40 seven-letter words, 71 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 37 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.