Hidden inside dearies sit dearies and readies, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 154 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dearies and readies tie for the highest Scrabble score from dearies at 8 points. The top 10 of 154 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dearies: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dearies itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dearies and readies, 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 dearies turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire, easier, erased, and raised. For points, the strongest plays are aeried, aiders, deairs, dearie, desire, eiders, erased, irades, raised, rediae, redias, resaid, reseda, reside, and seared — 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 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dearies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside, dares, dears, deers, dries, and eased. For points, the strongest plays are aedes, aider, aides, aired, aside, dares, deair, dears, deers, drees, dries, eared, eased, eider, ideas, irade, raids, rased, reads, redes, redia, reeds, resid, rides, seder, sered, and sired — 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 dearies produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, dare, dear, deer, dies, and ears. For points, the strongest plays are aide, aids, arid, dais, dare, dear, deer, dees, dere, desi, dies, dire, dree, eide, idea, ides, ired, rads, raid, read, rede, reds, reed, ride, rids, sade, sadi, said, sard, seed, and side — 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 dearies turns up 34 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, die, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, das, dee, die, dis, eds, ids, rad, red, rid, and sad — 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 dearies. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. 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 dearies and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
dearies 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 dearies carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
dearies is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dearies unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dearies and readies, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dearies 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 dearies produce 154 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 34 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.