Hidden inside demurrers sit demurrers and murderers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 131 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demurrers and murderers tie for the highest Scrabble score from demurrers at 12 points. The top 10 of 131 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in demurrers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and demurrers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murderers. For points, the strongest plays are demurrers and murderers — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurrers. 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.
Rearranging the letters in demurrers produces 4 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murders. For points, the strongest plays are demurer, murders, and resumed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling demurrers turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murder and resume. For points, the strongest plays are demure, demurs, merdes, and murder — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 34 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurrers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, drums, ruder, and surer. For points, 10 words tie at 8 points, including drums, deems and demes.
Rearranging the letters in demurrers produces 45 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, drum and muds. For points, 7 words tie at 7 points, including drum, muds and deem.
Unscrambling demurrers turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, mud and red. For points, the strongest plays are dum, med, and mud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurrers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me, um, and us. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in demurrers 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.
demurrers 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 demurrers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
demurrers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demurrers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demurrers and murderers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demurrers 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 demurrers produce 131 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 4 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 34 five-letter words, 45 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.