Hidden inside derider sit derider, reddier, and redried, 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.
derider, reddier, and redried tie for the highest Scrabble score from derider at 9 points. The top 10 of 42 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in derider: two come from rearranging its letters, and derider itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derider, reddier, and redried, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derider. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dried and drier. For points, the strongest plays are dreed, dried, reded, and redid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in derider produces 12 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, died, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are deed, died, and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in derider plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in derider 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.
derider 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 derider carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
derider is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derider unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derider, reddier, and redried, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derider 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 derider produce 42 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 12 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.