Hidden inside deraigns sit deraigns, gradines, and readings, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 410 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deraigns, gradines, and readings tie for the highest Scrabble score from deraigns at 10 points. The top 10 of 410 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in deraigns: two come from rearranging its letters, and deraigns itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with readings. For points, the strongest plays are deraigns, gradines, and readings — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deraigns produces 22 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dangers, erasing, gardens, and reading. For points, the strongest plays are dangers, darings, deraign, dingers, engirds, ganders, gardens, gradine, gradins, grained, and reading — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deraigns turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with angers, danger, daring, design, diners, drains, and easing. For points, the strongest plays are danger, daring, deigns, design, dinger, dinges, dirges, engird, gained, gander, garden, girned, grades, gradin, grands, grides, grinds, ranged, reding, ridges, ringed, signed, and singed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 102 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deraigns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, anger, aside, dares, dears, diner, and dines. For points, the strongest plays are dangs, degas, deign, dinge, dings, dirge, drags, dregs, egads, gadis, girds, grade, grads, grand, gride, grids, grind, raged, and ridge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deraigns produces 126 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, ages, aids, airs, dare, dear, and dies. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dags, dang, digs, ding, drag, dreg, egad, gadi, gads, gaed, geds, gids, gied, gird, grad, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deraigns turns up 72 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, age, aid, air, and, are, and die. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, gad, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deraigns. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 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 deraigns 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.
deraigns 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.
deraigns is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deraigns unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deraigns, gradines, and readings, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deraigns 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 deraigns produce 410 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 22 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 102 five-letter words, 126 four-letter words, 72 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.