Hidden inside displaces sit displaces and slipcased, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 462 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
displaces and slipcased tie for the highest Scrabble score from displaces at 14 points. The top 10 of 462 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in displaces: one comes from rearranging its letters, and displaces 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 displaces and slipcased, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in displaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with specials. For points, the strongest plays are displace and spadices — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in displaces produces 24 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with special. For points, the strongest plays are capsids, clasped, scalped, and spliced — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling displaces turns up 75 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisles, ladies and passed. For points, 6 words tie at 11 points, including placed, capsid and placid.
There are 130 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in displaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acids, aisle and aside. For points, the strongest plays are caped and paced — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in displaces produces 140 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acid, aids and apes. For points, 13 words tie at 8 points, including cape, caps and clap.
Unscrambling displaces turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and ape. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including cap, cep and pac.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in displaces. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. For points, the strongest plays are pa, pe, and pi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in displaces plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in displaces 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.
displaces 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 four senses for displaces. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
displaces is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing displaces unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are displaces and slipcased, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from displaces 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 displaces produce 462 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 eight-letter words, 24 seven-letter words, 75 six-letter words, 130 five-letter words, 140 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.