Hidden inside degrader sit degrader, regarded, and regraded, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 105 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
degrader, regarded, and regraded tie for the highest Scrabble score from degrader at 11 points. The top 10 of 105 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in degrader: two come from rearranging its letters, and degrader itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are degrader, regarded, and regraded, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in degrader produces 4 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are degrade and dredger, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling degrader turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, dearer, graded, grader, redder, and regard. For points, the strongest plays are dredge, gadder, and graded — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in degrader. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, dared, and grade. For points, the strongest play is edged — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in degrader produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, dead, dear, deed, deer, and drag. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dead, deed, drag, dreg, edge, egad, gaed, geed, grad, and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling degrader turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, age, are, dad, ear, era, and gee. For points, the strongest plays are add, dad, dag, gad, and ged — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in degrader. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, and ed — 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 degrader and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
degrader 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for degrader. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
degrader is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing degrader unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are degrader, regarded, and regraded, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from degrader 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 degrader produce 105 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.