Hidden inside duties sit duties and suited, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
duties and suited tie for the highest Scrabble score from duties at 7 points. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in duties: one comes from rearranging its letters, and duties itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: duties and suited, worth 7 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, edits, and suite. For points, the strongest plays are deist, diets, dites, duets, duits, edits, sited, stied, and tides — 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 duties produces 25 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet, dust, edit, side, site, and stud. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, diet, dite, dits, dues, duet, duit, dust, edit, ides, side, stud, sued, teds, tide, tied, and used — 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 duties turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, due, ids, its, set, sit, and sue. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, dit, due, dui, eds, ids, and ted — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in duties. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, it, and us. 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.
Swap a single tile in duties 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.
duties 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 three senses for duties. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
duties is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing duties unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are duties and suited, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from duties 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 duties produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 25 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.