Hidden inside degerm sit degerm and merged, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
degerm and merged tie for the highest Scrabble score from degerm at 10 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in degerm: one comes from rearranging its letters, and degerm itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with merged. For points, the strongest plays are degerm 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 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in degerm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with merge. For points, the strongest plays are emerg, merde, and merge — 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 degerm produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, edge, and germ. For points, the strongest plays are deem, deme, derm, germ, 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 degerm turns up 13 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gee and red. For points, the strongest plays are gem, med, and meg — 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in degerm. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays are em and me — 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 degerm and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
degerm 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.
degerm is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing degerm unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are degerm and merged, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from degerm 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 degerm produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.