Hidden inside derides sit derides, desired, and resided, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 81 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derides, desired, and resided tie for the highest Scrabble score from derides at 9 points. The top 10 of 81 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in derides: two come from rearranging its letters, and derides 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 derides, desired, and resided, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derides turns up 5 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire. For points, the strongest plays are deride and eddies — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeds, deers, dried, dries, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are deeds, dreed, dried, redds, reded, redid, and sided — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in derides produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, died, dies, ride, rids, and rise. For points, the strongest plays are deed, died, and redd — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derides turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, ids, red, rid, see, and sir. For points, the strongest play is did — worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derides. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in derides 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.
derides 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 derides carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for derides. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
derides is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derides unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derides, desired, and resided, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derides 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 derides produce 81 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.