Hidden inside dereegt sit deterge and greeted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 42 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEREEGT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DETERGE and GREETED.
deterge and greeted tie for the highest Scrabble score from dereegt at 9 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in dereegt produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greeted. For points, the strongest plays are deterge and greeted — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dereegt produces exactly one six-letter word: degree. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dereegt. If a familiar word is all you need, start with greet. For points, the strongest plays are edger and greed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dereegt produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, edge, and tree. For points, the strongest plays are dreg, edge, and geed — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dereegt. 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.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in dereegt plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dereegt 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deterge and greeted, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dereegt 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 dereegt produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 13 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.