Hidden inside reductions sit discounter, introduces, rediscount and 1 other, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 1154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
discounter, introduces, rediscount and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from reductions at 13 points. The top 10 of 1154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 ten-letter words hiding in reductions: three come from rearranging its letters, and reductions itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with introduces. For points, the strongest plays are discounter, introduces, rediscount, and reductions — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling reductions turns up 20 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with countries and introduce. For points, the strongest plays are centroids, cinderous, coinsured, construed, courtside, decurions, doctrines, eductions, incrusted, inductors, insourced, introduce, reduction, reinducts, seduction, and suctioned — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reductions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with consider, counters, counties, discount, roundest, and routines. For points, the strongest plays are centroid, conduits, consider, contused, cordites, cornuted, crudites, crunodes, curdiest, curtsied, decurion, discount, doctrine, eduction, eductors, inducers, inductor, noctuids, outcried, reinduct, and trounced — 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 reductions produces 122 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with counted, counter, credits, directs, editors, noticed, and notices. For points, the strongest plays are cestoid, cinders, codeins, coedits, conduit, cordite, counted, coursed, courted, credits, crudest, cruised, crunode, crusted, ctenoid, deontic, directs, discern, docents, doucest, eductor, incudes, incused, inducer, induces, inducts, noctuid, noticed, rescind, scorned, scoured, scouted, secondi, and sourced — 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 reductions turns up 245 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, coitus, costed, counts, course, courts, and cousin. For points, the strongest plays are ciders, cinder, cisted, codein, codens, coders, coedit, coined, corned, cosied, costed, coudes, credit, credos, crudes, crudos, cursed, decors, dicers, dicots, direct, docent, doucer, dunces, durocs, edicts, educts, escudo, induce, induct, nordic, scored, scried, second, secund, triced, truced, and uniced — 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 315 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reductions. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, codes, coins, cones, cords, cores, and corns. For points, the strongest plays are cedis, cider, cited, coden, coder, codes, coeds, coned, cords, cored, coted, coude, credo, creds, cried, crude, crudo, cruds, curds, cured, decor, decos, dicer, dices, dicot, disco, douce, scend, scrod, scudi, scudo, sodic, duces, ducts, dunce, duroc, edict, educt, and riced — 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 reductions produces 258 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cone, cons, cord, and core. For points, the strongest plays are cedi, code, cods, coed, cord, cred, crud, cuds, cued, curd, 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 reductions turns up 115 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, cue, cut, die, dot, due, and end. 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 29 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in reductions. 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.
6 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in reductions plus one additional letter.
reductions 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 three senses for reductions. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
reductions is one of four ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing reductions unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are discounter, introduces, rediscount, and reductions, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from reductions 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 reductions produce 1154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 ten-letter words, 20 nine-letter words, 46 eight-letter words, 122 seven-letter words, 245 six-letter words, 315 five-letter words, 258 four-letter words, 115 three-letter words and 29 two-letter words.