Hidden inside drillers sit drillers and redrills, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 118 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drillers and redrills tie for the highest Scrabble score from drillers at 9 points. The top 10 of 118 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in drillers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drillers 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 drillers and redrills, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drillers produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are driller and redrill, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drillers turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drills. For points, 8 words tie at 7 points, including drills, derris and driers.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drillers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, drier and dries. For points, 19 words tie at 6 points, including delis, drier and dries.
Rearranging the letters in drillers produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies and lids. For points, 23 words tie at 5 points, including deli, dies and lids.
Unscrambling drillers turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids and ill. For points, 10 words tie at 4 points, including die, ids and led.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drillers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in drillers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in drillers 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.
drillers 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.
drillers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drillers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drillers and redrills, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drillers 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 drillers produce 118 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.