Hidden inside demerits sit demerits, demister, and dimeters, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demerits, demister, and dimeters tie for the highest Scrabble score from demerits at 11 points. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in demerits: two come from rearranging its letters, and demerits 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 demerits, demister, and dimeters, 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 demerits produces 15 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 demerit, dimeter, merited, mitered, remised, 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 demerits turns up 42 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, desire, driest, meters, and rested. For points, the strongest plays are demies, demise, demist, demits, dermis, dimers, itemed, merdes, metred, misted, 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 83 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demerits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diets, dimes, dries, edits, items, and meets. For points, the strongest plays are deems, deism, demes, demit, derms, dimer, dimes, disme, meeds, merde, meted, midst, 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 demerits produces 82 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, diet, dime, dirt, edit, and item. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deme, derm, dime, dims, idem, meds, meed, and mids — 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 demerits turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, its, met, red, rid, and see. 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 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demerits. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, 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 demerits 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.
demerits 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 demerits. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
demerits is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demerits unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demerits, demister, and dimeters, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demerits 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 demerits produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 15 seven-letter words, 42 six-letter words, 83 five-letter words, 82 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.