Hidden inside deeding sit deeding and deigned, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 50 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deeding and deigned tie for the highest Scrabble score from deeding at 10 points. The top 10 of 50 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in deeding: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deeding 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 deeding and deigned, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deeding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dined and ended. For points, the strongest play is edged — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deeding produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, died and dine. For points, 6 words tie at 6 points, including deed, died and edge.
Unscrambling deeding turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and dig. For points, the strongest plays are did, dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deeding. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in deeding plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deeding 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.
deeding 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.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
deeding is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deeding unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deeding and deigned, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deeding 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 deeding produce 50 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.