Hidden inside dere sit deer, dere, dree and 2 others, four-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 5 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 13 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deer, dere, dree and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from dere at 5 points. The top 10 of 13 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 four-letter words hiding in dere: four come from rearranging its letters, and dere itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including deer, dere and dree.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dere. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
32 five-letter words can be made using all the letters in dere plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dere and you get a different four-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 3 of the 4 letters, not all of them.
dere 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 dere carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
dere is one of five four-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dere unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deer, dere, dree, rede, and reed, worth 5 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dere 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 dere produce 13 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 four-letter words, 4 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.