Unscramble DESKILLS to get 147 words. DESKILLS itself is a real word: 13 points on a Scrabble board, 15 in Words With Friends. The strongest shorter words are SKILLED and DESKILL, 12 points each. The 8 letters split into 2 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2E1S1K5I1L12L12S1
Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DESKILLS split into 1 with 8 letters, 3 with 7, 10 with 6, 39 with 5, 54 with 4, 30 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Of the 39 5-letter words from DESKILLS, 8 score 10 points, the group's best. SLIDE, SIDES and SKILL are the ones most people know.
Among 54 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DESKILLS, the top score is 9, reached by 8. LIKE, LESS and SIDE are the familiar ones.
Keep every letter of DESKILLS but one, change that one, and you get:
More 8-letter words: starting with DE · ending in LS · all 8-letter words
What DESKILLS means, then the 7 highest-scoring answers.
Scrabble · Words With Friends points
DESKILLS 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DESKILLS itself | Yes | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 147) | 118 | 147 | 107 |
* From the list Words With Friends was built on; the game itself can differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 29 of them: KIDELS, KIDEL, KISSEL, KEDS, KELLS, KILD, LISKS, EIKS, KED, KELL, LISK, SEIK and 17 more. Words With Friends* skips 11 of them: DESKILLS, DESKILL, SKEDS, SKELLS, SKED, SKELL, KIS, DESIS, KI, DESI and EDS.