demurrages needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 519 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demurrages is the highest-scoring word from demurrages, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 519 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in demurrages — and it is demurrages itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling demurrages turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is demurrage, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurrages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with measured. For points, the strongest plays are dreamers, eardrums, measured, and redreams — 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 demurrages produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with graders, measure, murders, and regards. For points, the strongest plays are degames and degerms — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling demurrages turns up 93 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed, agrees, amused, argued, argues, dearer, and dreams. For points, the strongest plays are degame, degerm, degums, gaumed, merged, and smudge — 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 147 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurrages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agree, amuse, argue, armed, dares, dears, and deers. 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 demurrages produces 138 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, arms, dare, dear, deer, and drag. For points, the strongest plays are dame, dams, deem, deme, derm, dram, drum, duma, game, gams, gaum, gems, germ, geum, gram, grum, gums, made, mads, mage, mags, marg, maud, mead, meds, meed, mega, megs, muds, mugs, and smug — 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 demurrages turns up 71 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, are, arm, due, dug, and ear. 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurrages. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am, as, me, um, and us. 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.
demurrages 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 demurrages. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
demurrages is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demurrages unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is demurrages, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from demurrages 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 demurrages produce 519 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 11 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 93 six-letter words, 147 five-letter words, 138 four-letter words, 71 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.