Hidden inside demurring sit demurring and murdering, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 207 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
demurring and murdering tie for the highest Scrabble score from demurring at 13 points. The top 10 of 207 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in demurring: one comes from rearranging its letters, and demurring itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with murdering. For points, the strongest plays are demurring and murdering — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in demurring produces 5 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is unrimed, 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 demurring turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with during, murder, remind, and ruined. For points, the strongest play is grimed — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 43 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, drier, grind, guide, nuder, ruder, and under. For points, the strongest plays are degum and midge — 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 demurring produces 60 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dime, dine, drug, drum, germ, menu, and mind. For points, the strongest plays are derm, dime, drum, germ, geum, grim, grum, idem, mend, mind, and mung — 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 demurring turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, due, dug, end, gum, and gun. For points, the strongest plays are dim, dum, gem, gum, med, meg, mid, mig, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in demurring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, me, and um. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mi, 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 demurring 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.
demurring 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
demurring is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing demurring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demurring and murdering, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from demurring 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 demurring produce 207 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 43 five-letter words, 60 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.