Hidden inside demurrer sit demurrer and murderer, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demurrer and murderer tie for the highest Scrabble score from demurrer at 11 points. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in demurrer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and demurrer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murderer. For points, the strongest plays are demurrer and murderer — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling demurrer produces exactly one seven-letter word: demurer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling demurrer turns up 2 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murder. For points, the strongest plays are demure and murder — 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurrer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ruder. For points, the strongest plays are demur, merde, and mured — 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 demurrer produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, drum, and rude. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deme, derm, drum, 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 demurrer turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, mud, red, and rum. For points, the strongest plays are dum, med, and mud — 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurrer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me and um. For points, the strongest plays are em, 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.
Swap a single tile in demurrer 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.
demurrer 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record three senses for demurrer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
demurrer is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demurrer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demurrer and murderer, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demurrer 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 demurrer produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 1 seven-letter word, 2 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.