Hidden inside reducers sit curseder and reducers, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 142 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
curseder and reducers tie for the highest Scrabble score from reducers at 11 points. The top 10 of 142 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in reducers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and reducers 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 curseder and reducers, 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 reducers produces 8 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reduces, rescued, and securer. For points, the strongest plays are recused, reducer, reduces, rescued, secured, and seducer — 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 reducers turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cursed, reduce, rescue, secure, and seduce. For points, the strongest plays are ceders, creeds, cruder, crudes, curred, cursed, deuces, educes, reduce, screed, and seduce — 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 38 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reducers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cured, cures, curse, deers, ruder, and surer. For points, the strongest plays are ceder, cedes, cered, creds, creed, crude, cruds, curds, cured, deuce, duces, and educe — 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 reducers produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cues, cure, deer, rude, seed, sued, and sure. For points, the strongest plays are cede, cred, crud, cuds, cued, curd, duce, and scud — 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 reducers turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cue, due, red, see, sue, and use. For points, the strongest play is cud — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reducers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with us. For points, the strongest plays are de and ed — 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 reducers 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.
reducers 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 two senses for reducers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
reducers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reducers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are curseder and reducers, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reducers 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 reducers produce 142 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 8 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 38 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.