136 words come out when you unscramble DECOCTIVE, starting with DECOCTIVE itself: 17 in Scrabble, 20 in Words With Friends. COVETED, EVICTED and DEVOICE are the best of the shorter words, at 13 points. It has 9 letters, 4 vowels and 5 consonants.
D2E1C34O1C34T1I1V45E1
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from DECOCTIVE by length: 1 with 9 letters, 5 with 7, 11 with 6, 20 with 5, 50 with 4, 34 with 3 and 15 with 2. None has 8 letters.
CIVE, COVE and VICE share the top score of 9 among the 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DECOCTIVE. CODE, EDIT and VOTE are the ones most people know.
Keep every letter of DECOCTIVE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DE · ending in VE · all 9-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with COVETED, DEVOICE and EVICTED (13 points each).
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
DECOCTIVE is a Scrabble word (Scrabble US and Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DECOCTIVE itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 136) | 104 | 136 | 95 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DECCIE, VOIDEE, CIVE, DEVOT, DOVIE, DEEV, DEVO, DIVO, ECCE, ECCO, TICED, CIDE and 20 more, 32 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DECOCTIVE, COVID, TICCED, DEVI, VID, ECO, TEC, OI and TE, 9 in all.