Hidden inside dera sit dare, dear, and read, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DERA isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DARE, DEAR and READ.
dare, dear, and read tie for the highest Scrabble score from dera at 5 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in dera produces 3 valid four-letter words. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: dare, dear, and read, worth 5 points apiece in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dera turns up 5 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, and red. For points, the strongest plays are rad and red — each worth 4 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 dera. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
69 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in dera plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dera and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dare, dear, and read, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dera 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 dera produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 four-letter words, 5 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.