Hidden inside derails sit derails, dialers, and redials, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 256 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derails, dialers, and redials tie for the highest Scrabble score from derails at 8 points. The top 10 of 256 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in derails: two come from rearranging its letters, and derails itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derails, dialers, and redials, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derails turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ladies, raised, sailed, and serial. For points, the strongest plays are aiders, aisled, alders, ariled, deairs, deasil, derail, dialer, drails, ideals, idlers, irades, laders, ladies, lairds, laired, liards, lidars, railed, raised, redial, redias, relaid, resaid, sailed, sidler, and slider — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 66 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derails. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aisle, aside, dares, deals, dears, and delis. For points, the strongest plays are aider, aides, ailed, aired, alder, aside, dales, dares, deair, deals, dears, deils, delis, dials, dirls, drail, dries, ideal, ideas, idler, idles, irade, isled, lader, lades, laird, lards, lased, leads, liard, lidar, raids, rased, reads, redia, resid, rides, riled, sidle, sired, and slide — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in derails produces 89 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, dare, deal, dear, deli, and dial. For points, the strongest plays are aide, aids, arid, dais, dale, dals, dare, deal, dear, deil, deli, dels, desi, dial, diel, dies, dire, dirl, elds, idea, ides, idle, ired, lade, lads, laid, lard, lead, lids, lied, rads, raid, read, reds, ride, rids, sade, sadi, said, sard, side, sild, sled, and slid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derails turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, die, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ads, aid, dal, das, del, die, dis, eds, eld, ids, lad, led, lid, rad, red, rid, and sad — 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derails. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, id, and is. 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.
23 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in derails plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in derails and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
derails 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for derails. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
derails is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derails unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derails, dialers, and redials, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derails 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 derails produce 256 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 66 five-letter words, 89 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.