decrement needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 136 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
decrement is the highest-scoring word from decrement, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 136 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in decrement — and it is decrement itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decrement. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is cemented, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decrement produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered. For points, the strongest plays are centred, credent, emender, erected, metered, and reedmen — 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 decrement turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with center, decent, recent, and rented. For points, the strongest play is emceed — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decrement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter and meter. For points, the strongest plays are creme and emcee — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in decrement produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, deer, meet, need, nerd, rent, and teen. For points, the strongest play is merc — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling decrement turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, men, met, net, red, and ten. For points, the strongest play is med — worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in decrement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em and me — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in decrement plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in decrement 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.
decrement 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 3-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 decrement. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
decrement is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing decrement unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is decrement, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from decrement 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 decrement produce 136 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 eight-letter words, 7 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.