Hidden inside deert sit deter and treed, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 24 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEERT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DETER and TREED.
deter and treed tie for the highest Scrabble score from deert at 6 points. The top 10 of 24 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deert. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deter and treed, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deert. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in deert and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deter and treed, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deert 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 deert produce 24 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 7 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.