demurrage needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 224 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demurrage is the highest-scoring word from demurrage, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 224 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in demurrage — and it is demurrage itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurrage. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are reargued and redargue, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in demurrage produces 9 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 demurer, dreamer, eardrum, meagrer, rearmed, and redream, 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 demurrage turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, argued, dearer, grader, merged, murder, and regard. For points, the strongest plays are degame, degerm, gaumed, and merged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 50 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurrage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, argue, armed, dream, grade, guard, and merge. For points, the strongest plays are degum and gamed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in demurrage produces 69 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, dear, deer, drag, drug, and drum. For points, the strongest plays are dame, deem, deme, derm, dram, drum, duma, game, gaum, germ, geum, gram, grum, made, mage, marg, maud, mead, meed, and mega — 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 demurrage turns up 46 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, are, arm, due, dug, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are dam, dum, gam, gem, gum, mad, mag, med, meg, mud, and mug — 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 demurrage. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are am, em, ma, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in demurrage plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in demurrage and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
demurrage 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 3-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 demurrage. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
demurrage is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demurrage unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is demurrage, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from demurrage 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 demurrage produce 224 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 50 five-letter words, 69 four-letter words, 46 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.