Hidden inside deirdre sit derider, reddier, and redried, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DRIEDER, RREEDID or RREEDDI and you get the same 7 letters as DEIRDRE: so the words from DEIRDRE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
DEIRDRE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DERIDER, REDDIER and REDRIED.
derider, reddier, and redried tie for the highest Scrabble score from deirdre at 9 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in deirdre produces 3 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 derider, reddier, and redried, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deirdre. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dried and drier. For points, the strongest plays are dreed, dried, reded, and redid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deirdre produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, died, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are deed, died, and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in deirdre plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deirdre 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derider, reddier, and redried, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deirdre 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 deirdre produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.