Hidden inside redactors sit costarred and redactors, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 549 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
costarred and redactors tie for the highest Scrabble score from redactors at 12 points. The top 10 of 549 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in redactors: one comes from rearranging its letters, and redactors itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are costarred and redactors, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redactors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with creators. For points, the strongest plays are corrades, redactor, and redcoats — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in redactors produces 33 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with carrots, coaster and creator. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including records, carders and coasted.
Unscrambling redactors turns up 100 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with actors, adores and arrest. For points, 19 words tie at 9 points, including costed, record and sacred.
There are 153 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redactors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acted, actor and adore. For points, 25 words tie at 8 points, including acted, cards and cared.
Rearranging the letters in redactors produces 154 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with acts, arts and card. For points, 14 words tie at 7 points, including card, code and cord.
Unscrambling redactors turns up 80 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with act, ads and are. For points, the strongest plays are cad, cod, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redactors. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 6 words tie at 3 points, including ad, do and da.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in redactors plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in redactors and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
redactors 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 one sense for redactors. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
redactors is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redactors unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are costarred and redactors, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redactors 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 redactors produce 549 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 33 seven-letter words, 100 six-letter words, 153 five-letter words, 154 four-letter words, 80 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.