Hidden inside distorter sit distorter and torridest, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 298 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distorter and torridest tie for the highest Scrabble score from distorter at 10 points. The top 10 of 298 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in distorter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and distorter 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 distorter and torridest, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in distorter produces 19 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editors, steroid, and stirred. For points, 12 words tie at 8 points, including editors, steroid and stirred.
Unscrambling distorter turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest, editor and orders. For points, 26 words tie at 7 points, including driest, editor and orders.
There are 76 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distorter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, drier and dries. For points, 39 words tie at 6 points, including diets, drier and dries.
Rearranging the letters in distorter produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dirt. For points, 36 words tie at 5 points, including dies, diet and dirt.
Unscrambling distorter turns up 47 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot and ids. For points, 17 words tie at 4 points, including die, dot and ids.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in distorter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id and is. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including do, id and de.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in distorter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in distorter 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.
distorter 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in distorter carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
distorter is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing distorter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are distorter and torridest, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from distorter 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 distorter produce 298 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 19 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 76 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 47 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.