Hidden inside dearests sit asserted and dearests, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 257 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
asserted and dearests tie for the highest Scrabble score from dearests at 9 points. The top 10 of 257 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in dearests: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dearests itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are asserted and dearests, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dearests produces 16 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest, deserts, dessert, and easters. For points, the strongest plays are dearest, derates, deserts, dessert, redates, resedas, sedater, sedates, tasered, and tressed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dearests turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, easter, erased, erases, rested, seated, and stared. For points, the strongest plays are daters, derate, derats, desert, deters, erased, redate, reseda, rested, seared, seated, sedate, seders, stades, stared, steads, steeds, teared, teased, trades, treads, and tsades — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 78 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, deers, dress, eased, and eases. For points, the strongest plays are aedes, dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, deers, deets, derat, deter, drats, drees, dress, drest, eared, eased, rased, rated, reads, redes, reeds, sades, sards, sated, seder, seeds, sered, stade, stead, steed, tared, tased, trade, trads, tread, treed, and tsade — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dearests produces 65 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare, date, dear, deer, ears, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are dare, dart, date, dear, deer, dees, deet, dere, drat, dree, rads, read, rede, reds, reed, sade, sard, seed, tads, teds, teed, and trad — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dearests turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ass, ate, ear, and eat. For points, the strongest plays are ads, das, dee, eds, rad, red, sad, tad, and ted — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearests. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in dearests and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
dearests is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
dearests is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dearests unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are asserted and dearests, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dearests 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 dearests produce 257 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 16 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 78 five-letter words, 65 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.