Hidden inside derend sit redden and rended, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 32 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEREND isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to REDDEN and RENDED.
redden and rended tie for the highest Scrabble score from derend at 8 points. The top 10 of 32 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling derend turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are redden and rended, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derend. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended. For points, the strongest plays are dreed, ended, and reded — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in derend produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, need, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are deed and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derend. 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.
Swap a single tile in derend 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are redden and rended, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derend 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 derend produce 32 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.