Hidden inside distiller sit distiller and redistill, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 242 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distiller and redistill tie for the highest Scrabble score from distiller at 10 points. The top 10 of 242 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in distiller: one comes from rearranging its letters, and distiller 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 distiller and redistill, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Unscrambling distiller produces exactly one eight-letter word: stillier. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in distiller produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with sillier. For points, the strongest plays are dillies, dirties, distill, ditsier, stilled, tidiers, and trilled — 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 distiller turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest, drills, and listed. For points, the strongest plays are delist, direst, distil, driest, drills, idlers, idlest, irides, irised, lilied, lilted, listed, rilled, sidler, silted, slider, stride, teiids, tidier, tidies, tildes, tilled, and tirled — 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 60 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distiller. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets, dries, drill, edits, rides, and slide. For points, the strongest plays are deils, deist, delis, dells, delts, diets, dills, dirls, dirts, dites, drest, dries, drill, edits, idler, idles, irids, isled, resid, rides, riled, sidle, sired, sited, slide, stied, teiid, tides, tilde, tiled, tired, and tried — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in distiller produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, diet, dirt, edit, lets, and lids. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dell, dels, delt, desi, diel, dies, diet, dill, dire, dirl, dirt, dite, dits, edit, elds, ides, idle, ired, irid, lids, lied, reds, ride, rids, side, sild, sled, slid, teds, tide, and tied — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling distiller turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, ill, its, led, let, and lid. For points, the strongest plays are del, die, dis, dit, eds, eld, ids, led, lid, red, rid, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distiller. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. 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 distiller plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in distiller 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.
distiller 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.
Dictionaries record one sense for distiller. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
distiller is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distiller unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are distiller and redistill, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from distiller 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 distiller produce 242 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 14 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 60 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.