Unscramble DESCRIES to get 193 words. DESCRIES itself is a real word: 11 points on a Scrabble board, 12 in Words With Friends. DECRIES, SCREEDS and DEICERS are the best of the shorter words, at 10 points. It has 8 letters, 3 vowels and 5 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DESCRIES split into 1 with 8 letters, 6 with 7, 29 with 6, 57 with 5, 60 with 4, 30 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Among 29 6-letter words in DESCRIES, the top score is 9, reached by 10. SERIES, DESIRE and RESIDE are the familiar ones.
15 of 57 5-letter words from DESCRIES tie at 8 points; none scores more. DRESS, SIDES and SEEDS will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DESCRIES, 8 score 7 points, the group's best. SIDE, DISC and RISE are the ones most people know.
Trade one tile of DESCRIES for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in ES · all 8-letter words
What DESCRIES means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Yes, in all three: Scrabble US and Scrabble UK accept DESCRIES, and the list Words With Friends is built on has it too.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DESCRIES itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 193) | 158 | 193 | 151 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 35 of them: DRICES, CESSER, CIDES, DRICE, CESSE, CIDE, CIDS, CREES, CRISE, ERICS, ICERS, SERIC and 23 more. Words With Friends* skips 7 of them: CREDS, CRED, DESIS, DESI, RESES, EDS and ESSE.
These 6 words take every letter of DESCRIES plus a single extra one.