Hidden inside dearie sit aeried, dearie, and rediae, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
aeried, dearie, and rediae tie for the highest Scrabble score from dearie at 7 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in dearie: two come from rearranging its letters, and dearie itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are aeried, dearie, and rediae, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aired, deair, eared, eider, irade, and redia — 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 dearie produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dear, deer, idea, read, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are aide, arid, dare, dear, deer, dere, dire, dree, eide, idea, ired, raid, read, rede, reed, and ride — 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 dearie turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, air, are, die, ear, era, and red. For points, the strongest plays are aid, dee, die, rad, red, and rid — 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearie. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and id. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, and id — 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 dearie and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
dearie is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in dearie carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for dearie. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
dearie is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dearie unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are aeried, dearie, and rediae, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dearie 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 dearie produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.