Hidden inside derate sit derate, redate, and teared, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 65 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derate, redate, and teared tie for the highest Scrabble score from derate at 7 points. The top 10 of 65 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in derate: two come from rearranging its letters, and derate itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derate, redate, and teared, 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with trade. For points, the strongest plays are dater, derat, deter, eared, rated, tared, trade, tread, and treed — 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 derate produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, dear, deer, rate, read, and tear. For points, the strongest plays are dare, dart, date, dear, deer, deet, dere, drat, dree, read, rede, reed, teed, and trad — 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 derate turns up 20 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and rat. For points, the strongest plays are dee, rad, red, tad, and ted — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. 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.
37 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in derate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in derate and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
derate 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in derate carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for derate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
derate is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derate, redate, and teared, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derate 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 derate produce 65 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 20 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.