Hidden inside deductions sit deductions and discounted, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 551 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deductions and discounted tie for the highest Scrabble score from deductions at 14 points. The top 10 of 551 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in deductions: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deductions 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 deductions and discounted, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deductions turns up 4 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is deduction, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deductions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counties and discount. For points, the strongest play is inducted — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deductions produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counted, noticed, notices, outside, section, sounded, and studied. For points, the strongest plays are cuddies, deducts, discoed, induced, and uncoded — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deductions turns up 90 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, coitus, costed, counts, cousin, cuties, and donuts. For points, the strongest plays are cuddie, deduct, disced, and ducted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 148 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deductions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, codes, coins, cones, count, cutie, and dices. For points, the strongest plays are coded and diced — 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 deductions produces 150 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cone, cons, cost, and cues. For points, the strongest plays are cedi, code, cods, coed, cuds, cued, deco, dice, disc, docs, duce, duci, duct, iced, odic, 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 deductions turns up 85 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, cut, did, die, dot, and due. For points, the strongest plays are cod, cud, and doc — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deductions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, it, no, and on. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
deductions 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 six senses for deductions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
deductions is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deductions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deductions and discounted, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deductions 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 deductions produce 551 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 4 nine-letter words, 8 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 90 six-letter words, 148 five-letter words, 150 four-letter words, 85 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.