Hidden inside discrepant sit discrepant and predicants, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1371 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
discrepant and predicants tie for the highest Scrabble score from discrepant at 15 points. The top 10 of 1371 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in discrepant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and discrepant 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 discrepant and predicants, each 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 discrepant turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are crispated, practised, and predicant, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discrepant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with distance and predicts. For points, the strongest plays are adscript, pandects, pedantic, peracids, picrated, predicts, prescind, scripted, and spicated — each 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 discrepant produces 162 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with candies, carpets, certain, credits, dancers, diapers, and directs. For points, the strongest plays are crisped, depicts, discept, endcaps, pandect, peracid, percids, pranced, predict, redcaps, scarped, and scraped — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling discrepant turns up 296 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carpet, caters, credit, dancer, dances, diaper, and diners. For points, the strongest plays are capsid, carped, craped, depict, endcap, percid, priced, redcap, scaped, spaced, and spiced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 408 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discrepant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, acted, aired, aside, capes, cards, and cared. For points, the strongest plays are caped and paced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in discrepant produces 300 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, acts, aids, airs, ants, apes, and arts. For points, the strongest plays are cape, caps, carp, ceps, crap, crip, epic, pace, pacs, pact, pecs, perc, pica, pice, pics, and spec — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling discrepant turns up 130 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads, aid, air, and, ant, and ape. For points, the strongest plays are cap, cep, pac, pec, and pic — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in discrepant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, at, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 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 discrepant plus one additional letter.
discrepant 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for discrepant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
discrepant is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing discrepant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are discrepant and predicants, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from discrepant 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 discrepant produce 1371 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 39 eight-letter words, 162 seven-letter words, 296 six-letter words, 408 five-letter words, 300 four-letter words, 130 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.