durians needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 8 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
durians is the highest-scoring word from durians, worth 8 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in durians — and it is durians itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling durians turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drains. For points, the strongest plays are dinars, drains, durian, nadirs, radius, ranids, and unsaid — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in durians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drain, rains, and ruins. For points, the strongest plays are darns, dinar, drain, duras, durns, nadir, nards, nidus, nurds, raids, rands, ranid, rinds, and ursid — 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 durians produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, anus, rain, rids, ruin, and runs. For points, the strongest plays are aids, ands, arid, dais, dans, darn, dins, duns, dura, durn, nard, nurd, rads, raid, rand, rids, rind, sadi, said, sand, sard, surd, and urds — 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 durians turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, and, ids, ran, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, and, dan, das, din, dis, dui, dun, ids, rad, rid, sad, and urd — 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 durians. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, is, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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 durians and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
durians 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 two senses for durians. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
durians is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing durians unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is durians, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and no other word from durians 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 durians produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 8 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.