Hidden inside denies sit denies, dienes, and seined, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
denies, dienes, and seined tie for the highest Scrabble score from denies at 7 points. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in denies: two come from rearranging its letters, and denies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies. For points, the strongest plays are denies, dienes, and seined — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines and needs. For points, 7 words tie at 6 points, including dines, needs and denes.
Rearranging the letters in denies produces 21 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine and ends. For points, 17 words tie at 5 points, including dies, dine and ends.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in denies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
22 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in denies plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in denies and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
denies 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record seven senses for denies. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
denies is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing denies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are denies, dienes, and seined, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from denies 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 denies produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 21 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.