Hidden inside demerit sit demerit, dimeter, merited and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demerit, dimeter, merited and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from demerit at 10 points. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in demerit: four come from rearranging its letters, and demerit 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 demerit, dimeter, merited, mitered, and retimed, 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 demerit turns up 11 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are itemed, metred, mitred, and termed, 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 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demerit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with meter, tired, and tried. For points, the strongest plays are demit, dimer, merde, meted, mired, rimed, and timed — each 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 demerit produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, diet, dime, dirt, edit, item, and meet. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deme, derm, dime, idem, and meed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling demerit turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, met, red, rid, and tie. For points, the strongest plays are dim, med, and mid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demerit. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, it, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 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 demerit 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.
demerit 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 two senses for demerit. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
demerit is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demerit unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demerit, dimeter, merited, mitered, and retimed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demerit 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 demerit produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.