Hidden inside editors sit editors, sortied, steroid and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 202 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
editors, sortied, steroid and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from editors at 8 points. The top 10 of 202 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in editors: four come from rearranging its letters, and editors itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with editors and steroid. For points, the strongest plays are editors, sortied, steroid, storied, and triodes — 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 editors turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest, editor, and sorted. For points, the strongest plays are direst, dories, doters, dotier, driest, droits, editor, rioted, sorted, stored, stride, strode, todies, and triode — 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 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in editors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, dries, edits, rides, riots, store, and tired. For points, the strongest plays are deist, diets, dirts, dites, doers, doest, doits, dores, doser, doter, dotes, drest, dries, droit, edits, eidos, odist, redos, resid, resod, rides, rodes, roids, rosed, sired, sited, sored, stied, tides, tired, tried, and trode — 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 editors produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dirt, does, dots, edit, and rest. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diet, dire, dirt, dite, dits, doer, does, doit, dore, dors, dose, dost, dote, dots, edit, ides, ired, odes, redo, reds, ride, rids, rode, rods, roid, side, sord, teds, tide, tied, tods, toed, and trod — 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 editors turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dot, ids, its, red, rid, and rod. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, dit, doe, dor, dos, dot, eds, ids, ode, ods, red, rid, rod, sod, ted, and tod — 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 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in editors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, is, it, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
22 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in editors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in editors 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.
editors 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 editors carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for editors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
editors is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing editors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are editors, sortied, steroid, storied, and triodes, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from editors 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 editors produce 202 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.