Hidden inside evildoer sit evildoer and overidle, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
evildoer and overidle tie for the highest Scrabble score from evildoer at 12 points. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in evildoer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and evildoer 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 evildoer and overidle, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in evildoer produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deliver. For points, the strongest plays are deliver, livered, relived, and reviled — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling evildoer turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eviler and relied. For points, the strongest plays are delver, derive, devoir, drivel, levied, overed, reived, veiled, and voider — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in evildoer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with devil, drive, drove, lived, liver, loved, and lover. For points, the strongest plays are delve, devel, devil, diver, drive, drove, lived, loved, rived, roved, video, and voled — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in evildoer produces 63 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, deli, dive, dove, ever, evil, and lied. For points, the strongest plays are devi, dive, dove, veld, vide, vied, and void — 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 evildoer turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve, led, lid, lie, oil, and old. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in evildoer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, and or. 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.
Swap a single tile in evildoer 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.
evildoer 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 one sense for evildoer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
evildoer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing evildoer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are evildoer and overidle, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from evildoer 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 evildoer produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 63 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.