Hidden inside derivates sit advertise and derivates, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 536 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
advertise and derivates tie for the highest Scrabble score from derivates at 13 points. The top 10 of 536 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in derivates: one comes from rearranging its letters, and derivates itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advertise. For points, the strongest plays are advertise and derivates — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derivates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with readiest and steadier. For points, the strongest plays are derivate, deviates, and sedative — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in derivates produces 46 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dearest and starved. For points, 18 words tie at 11 points, including starved, adverse and adverts.
Unscrambling derivates turns up 104 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise, desert and desire. For points, 27 words tie at 10 points, including advise, drives and served.
There are 149 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derivates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aired, aside and dares. For points, 15 words tie at 9 points, including dives, drive and saved.
Rearranging the letters in derivates produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs and arts. For points, 9 words tie at 8 points, including dive, avid and deva.
Unscrambling derivates turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid and air. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 20 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derivates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as and at. For points, 5 words tie at 3 points, including ad, id and da.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in derivates plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in derivates 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.
derivates 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.
derivates is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derivates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are advertise and derivates, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derivates 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 derivates produce 536 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 46 seven-letter words, 104 six-letter words, 149 five-letter words, 136 four-letter words, 73 three-letter words and 20 two-letter words.