Hidden inside interdicts sit distincter and interdicts, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 413 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
distincter and interdicts tie for the highest Scrabble score from interdicts at 13 points. The top 10 of 413 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in interdicts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and interdicts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are distincter and interdicts, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling interdicts turns up 3 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are indicters, interdict, and reindicts, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interdicts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dirtiest and district. For points, the strongest plays are dictiest, distinct, district, indicter, indirect, and reindict — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in interdicts produces 50 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with credits, dentist, directs, and tiniest. For points, the strongest plays are cinders, credits, deistic, diciest, dictier, dineric, directs, discern, identic, incised, incited, indices, indicts, rescind, and tincted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling interdicts turns up 74 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cities, credit, diners, direct, driest, inside, and nicest. For points, the strongest plays are ciders, cinder, cisted, citied, credit, dicers, dicier, direct, edicts, indict, scried, and triced — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 106 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interdicts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, cried, cries, dices, diets, diner, and dines. For points, the strongest plays are cedis, cider, cited, creds, cried, dicer, dices, disci, edict, riced, and scend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in interdicts produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, dice, dies, diet, dine, dirt, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are cedi, cred, dice, disc, and iced — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling interdicts turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ice, ids, its, net, and red. For points, the strongest plays are cis, ice, rec, sec, sic, tec, and tic — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in interdicts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, is, and it. 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.
interdicts 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 four senses for interdicts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
interdicts is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing interdicts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are distincter and interdicts, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from interdicts 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 interdicts produce 413 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 3 nine-letter words, 19 eight-letter words, 50 seven-letter words, 74 six-letter words, 106 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.