Unscramble DIRECTORY and you have 230 words, DIRECTORY itself among them: it scores 15 in Scrabble and 15 in Words With Friends. It has 9 letters, 3 vowels and 6 consonants.
D2I1R1E1C34T1O1R1Y43
Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from DIRECTORY by length: 1 with 9 letters, 2 with 8, 3 with 7, 27 with 6, 60 with 5, 60 with 4, 57 with 3 and 20 with 2.
Of the 27 6-letter words you get when you unscramble DIRECTORY, 4 score 12 points, the group's best. CREDIT, RECORD and DIRECT are the ones most people know.
6 of 60 5-letter words from DIRECTORY tie at 11 points; none scores more. ORDER, DIRTY and DECOR will look familiar.
Of the 60 4-letter words from DIRECTORY, 4 score 9 points, the group's best. CITY, CODE and CORE are the ones most people know.
COY, CRY and ICY are the top 3-letter words in DIRECTORY, 8 points each. RED, YET and TRY will look familiar.
Keep every letter of DIRECTORY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 9-letter words: starting with DI · ending in RY · all 9-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by CIDERY, DIOECY and RECTORY (12 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
DIRECTORY works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DIRECTORY itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 230) | 176 | 230 | 164 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: CYTODE, CYTOID, CERTY, COREY, RICEY, CYTE, RICY, RIOTRY, DORIC, DORTIER, DREY, DRICE and 42 more, 54 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: CIDERY, CRYER, CRED, RECIT, RETROD, CERT, CRIT, YER, ECO, TEC, OI and TE, 12 in all.