discovery needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 18 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 300 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
discovery is the highest-scoring word from discovery, worth 18 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 300 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in discovery — and it is discovery itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discovery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with discover and divorces. For points, the strongest play is viceroys — worth 16 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in discovery produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with divorce. For points, the strongest play is viceroy — worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling discovery turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with covers, drives, scored, videos, and voices. For points, the strongest play is coveys — worth 14 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 discovery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with codes, cords, cores, cover, cried, cries, and dices. For points, the strongest play is covey — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in discovery produces 91 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with code, cord, core, dice, dies, dive, and does. For points, the strongest play is very — 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 discovery turns up 58 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cry, die, dry, dye, ice, ids, and red. For points, the strongest play is ivy — worth 9 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 discovery. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, or, oy, so, 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 discovery 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.
discovery 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 four senses for discovery. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 18 points on a Scrabble board:
discovery is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing discovery unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is discovery, worth 18 points in Scrabble, and no other word from discovery 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 discovery produce 300 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 85 five-letter words, 91 four-letter words, 58 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.