derringer needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 117 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derringer is the highest-scoring word from derringer, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 117 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in derringer — and it is derringer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling derringer produces exactly one eight-letter word: deringer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in derringer produces 8 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dreeing, energid, grinder, reeding, regrind, and reigned, 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 derringer turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gender. For points, the strongest plays are dinger, edgier, engird, gender, girder, girned, reding, and ringed — 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 23 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derringer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, drier, green, and grind. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, dirge, edger, greed, gride, grind, and ridge — 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 derringer produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dine, edge, gene, need, nerd, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are ding, dreg, edge, geed, gied, gird, and grid — 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 derringer turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, gee, red, rid, and rig. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derringer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and in. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, 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.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in derringer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in derringer and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
derringer 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.
The 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for derringer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
derringer is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derringer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is derringer, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from derringer 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 derringer produce 117 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 8 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.