Hidden inside degir sit dirge, gride, and ridge, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 28 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEGIR isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DIRGE, GRIDE and RIDGE.
dirge, gride, and ridge tie for the highest Scrabble score from degir at 7 points. The top 10 of 28 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in degir. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dirge, gride, and ridge, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in degir produces 7 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ride. For points, the strongest plays are dreg, gied, gird, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling degir turns up 12 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and red. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
29 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in degir plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in degir 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 dirge, gride, and ridge, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from degir 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 degir produce 28 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.