duellist needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 9 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
duellist is the highest-scoring word from duellist, worth 9 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in duellist — and it is duellist itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in duellist produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dullest. For points, the strongest plays are dilutes, duelist, dullest, illudes, stilled, and sullied — 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 duellist turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with duties, listed, and suited. For points, the strongest plays are delist, dilute, duelli, duties, idlest, illude, lilted, listed, lusted, silted, suited, tildes, and tilled — 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duellist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with delis, diets, edits, slide, still, suite, and tells. For points, the strongest plays are deils, deist, delis, dells, delts, diets, dills, dites, duels, duets, duits, dulls, dulse, edits, idles, isled, leuds, ludes, luted, sidle, sited, slide, slued, stied, tides, tilde, and tiled — 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 duellist produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, dies, diet, dull, dust, edit, and lets. For points, the strongest plays are deil, deli, dell, dels, delt, desi, diel, dies, diet, dill, dite, dits, duel, dues, duet, duit, dull, dust, edit, elds, ides, idle, leud, lids, lied, lude, luds, side, sild, sled, slid, stud, sued, teds, tide, tied, and used — 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 duellist turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due, ids, ill, its, led, and let. For points, the strongest plays are del, die, dis, dit, due, dui, eds, eld, ids, led, lid, lud, 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 duellist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, it, and us. 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.
Swap a single tile in duellist 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.
duellist 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 one sense for duellist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
duellist is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing duellist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is duellist, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and no other word from duellist 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 duellist produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.