Hidden inside derates sit dearest, derates, redates and 2 others, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 192 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dearest, derates, redates and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from derates at 8 points. The top 10 of 192 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 seven-letter words hiding in derates: four come from rearranging its letters, and derates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest. For points, the strongest plays are dearest, derates, redates, sedater, and tasered — 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 derates turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, easter, erased, rested, seated, stared, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are daters, derate, derats, desert, deters, erased, redate, reseda, rested, seared, seated, sedate, stared, teared, teased, trades, and treads — 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 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates, dears, deers, eased, erase, and rates. For points, the strongest plays are aedes, dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, deers, deets, derat, deter, drats, drees, drest, eared, eased, rased, rated, reads, redes, reeds, sated, seder, sered, stade, stead, steed, tared, tased, trade, trads, tread, treed, and tsade — 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 derates produces 57 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare, date, dear, deer, ears, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are dare, dart, date, dear, deer, dees, deet, dere, drat, dree, rads, read, rede, reds, reed, sade, sard, seed, tads, teds, 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 derates turns up 38 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, art, ate, ear, eat, and era. For points, the strongest plays are ads, das, dee, eds, rad, red, sad, 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, 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.
34 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in derates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in derates 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.
derates 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 derates carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for derates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 8 points on a Scrabble board:
derates is one of five seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dearest, derates, redates, sedater, and tasered, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derates 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 derates produce 192 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 57 four-letter words, 38 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.