derailment needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 838 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derailment is the highest-scoring word from derailment, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 838 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in derailment — and it is derailment itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling derailment turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are alimented, demential, madrilene, and minareted, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derailment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with remained. For points, 11 words tie at 11 points, including remained, aldermen and dementia.
Rearranging the letters in derailment produces 81 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with altered, emailed and eternal. For points, 26 words tie at 10 points, including emailed, amender and dementi.
Unscrambling derailment turns up 189 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admire, dealer and denial. For points, 41 words tie at 9 points, including admire, dreamt and maiden.
There are 191 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derailment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed and aired. For points, 32 words tie at 8 points, including admit, aimed and armed.
Rearranging the letters in derailment produces 211 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, laid and lame. For points, 17 words tie at 7 points, including made, maid and mild.
Unscrambling derailment turns up 98 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and air. For points, 5 words tie at 6 points, including mad, dam and dim.
There are 30 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derailment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 4 points, including am, me and em.
5 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in derailment plus one additional letter.
derailment 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 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for derailment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
derailment is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derailment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is derailment, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from derailment 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 derailment produce 838 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 nine-letter words, 31 eight-letter words, 81 seven-letter words, 189 six-letter words, 191 five-letter words, 211 four-letter words, 98 three-letter words and 30 two-letter words.