Hidden inside derision sit derision, ironised, ironside and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 227 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derision, ironised, ironside and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from derision at 9 points. The top 10 of 227 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in derision: three come from rearranging its letters, and derision itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derision, ironised, ironside, and resinoid, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in derision produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ironies. For points, the strongest plays are dineros, indorse, insider, iodines, ionised, ordines, rosined, sordine, and sordini — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derision turns up 27 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diners, inside, and senior. For points, the strongest plays are dinero, diners, donsie, dories, drones, indies, indris, inside, iodine, iodins, iodise, irides, irised, ironed, noised, onside, redons, rinsed, rondes, snider, snored, sonder, and sorned — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 52 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derision. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, dines, dries, irons, nerds, noise, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are diner, dines, dinos, doers, dores, doser, dries, drone, eidos, indie, indri, iodin, irids, nerds, nides, nodes, nosed, redon, redos, rends, resid, resod, rides, rinds, rodes, roids, ronde, rosed, sired, snide, sonde, and sored — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in derision produces 67 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine, does, done, ends, iron, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are deni, dens, desi, dies, dine, dino, dins, dire, doer, does, done, dons, dore, dors, dose, ends, ides, ired, irid, nerd, nide, nidi, node, nodi, nods, odes, redo, reds, rend, ride, rids, rind, rode, rods, roid, send, side, sned, and sord — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derision turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, ids, nor, one, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are den, die, din, dis, doe, don, dor, dos, eds, end, ids, nod, ode, ods, red, rid, rod, and sod — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derision. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, in, is, no, on, and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, id, and od — 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 derision and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
derision 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for derision. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
derision is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derision unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derision, ironised, ironside, and resinoid, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derision 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 derision produce 227 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 27 six-letter words, 52 five-letter words, 67 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.