Hidden inside derailed sit deadlier, derailed, and redialed, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 177 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deadlier, derailed, and redialed tie for the highest Scrabble score from derailed at 10 points. The top 10 of 177 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in derailed: two come from rearranging its letters, and derailed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deadlier, derailed, and redialed, 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 derailed 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 words are deaired, dreidel, laddier, and readied, 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 derailed turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealer, dialed, ladder, leaded, leader, and relied. For points, the strongest plays are deader, delead, deride, dialed, dirled, dreidl, elided, ladder, laddie, larded, leaded, raddle, raided, reddle, and riddle — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derailed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, dared, dried, and ideal. For points, the strongest plays are adder, addle, aided, dared, dedal, deled, dread, dreed, dried, idled, laded, readd, reded, and redid — 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 derailed produces 55 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dead, deal, dear, deed, deer, and deli. For points, the strongest plays are dead, deed, died, and redd — 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 derailed turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, aid, air, are, dad, did, and die. For points, the strongest plays are add, dad, and did — 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derailed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and id. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, ed, 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 derailed 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.
derailed 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
derailed is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derailed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deadlier, derailed, and redialed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derailed 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 derailed produce 177 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 5 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 55 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.