Hidden inside diverter sit diverter and verditer, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 106 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diverter and verditer tie for the highest Scrabble score from diverter at 12 points. The top 10 of 106 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in diverter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and diverter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are diverter and verditer, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in diverter produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retired. For points, the strongest plays are deriver, redrive, and riveted — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling diverter turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driver and retire. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including driver, derive and divert.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diverter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drier, drive and river. For points, the strongest plays are diver, drive, and rived — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in diverter produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, diet and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are devi, dive, vide, and vied — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling diverter turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve and red. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in diverter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
4 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in diverter plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in diverter and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
diverter 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.
diverter is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing diverter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diverter and verditer, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from diverter 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 diverter produce 106 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.