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.
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.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
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, the strongest plays are adverse, adverts, advisee, adviser, averted, datives, derives, deviate, deviser, diverse, diverts, evaders, revised, riveted, starved, strived, tardive, and vistaed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derivates turns up 104 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with advise, desert, desire, driest, drives, easier, and easter. For points, the strongest plays are advert, advise, dative, davies, davits, deaves, derive, devest, devise, divers, divert, divest, drives, evader, evades, evited, reaved, reived, served, sieved, staved, varied, versed, vested, visaed, visard, and viseed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
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, dares, dates, dears, deers, and diets. For points, the strongest plays are davit, deave, devas, devis, divas, diver, dives, drave, drive, eaved, evade, raved, rived, saved, and vised — 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 derivates produces 136 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, airs, arts, dare, date, dear, and deer. For points, the strongest plays are avid, deva, devi, devs, diva, dive, vide, vids, and vied — 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 derivates turns up 73 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, air, are, art, ate, and die. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — 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 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, at, id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, 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.
6 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in derivates plus one additional letter.
derivates appears in the word lists that Scrabble and Words With Friends validate against, so the rack is 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.
The anagram solver inside UnscrambleX compares derivates against the dictionaries used by Scrabble, Words With Friends, Word Jumble, and Text Twist, keeps every arrangement those dictionaries contain, and sorts the confirmed words by tile score. That sorting step is why advertise and derivates appear at the top of the results. A word on this page is a legal play in Scrabble and Words With Friends, not a letter combination that only looks like a word.
Unscrambling derivates produces two kinds of plays in Scrabble and Words With Friends: one high-scoring word, and one short word that fits a crowded board.
The high-scoring play is advertise. The short plays are ad and ae, and they cover the turns when the board leaves no open line long enough for the bigger word.
The score gap is exact: the lowest-scoring word from these letters earns 2 points in Scrabble and the highest-scoring word earns 13 points. The letters are identical in both cases, so the board decides the value of the turn.
UnscrambleX lists every word from these letters with its Scrabble score and its Words With Friends score, so the choice between points and board position is made from numbers instead of memory.
The results list works as a vocabulary drill for Scrabble and Words With Friends players. Cover the list, rearrange derivates in your head, and count how many of the 536 words you find before you check the answers.
Experienced players find the long words such as advertise and derivates without help. The short words are the ones that go unnoticed, and short words decide close games in Scrabble, Words With Friends, and Text Twist.
Repeat the drill on a few letter sets each day. Vowel positions, common endings such as -ed and -ing, and high-value tiles become recognisable without an unscrambler.
Unscrambling adds words that reading never supplies. No Scrabble player opens a dictionary to look for ae, and the word enters a playable vocabulary only because a results list produced it.
Spelling accuracy improves at the same time. Building advertise from loose tiles forces one letter order and returns a correct or incorrect verdict inside the same move, which is faster feedback than a spelling test. Plays from derivates range from 2 to 13 points in Scrabble, so every turn also asks a scoring question: take the points now, or keep the flexible tiles for the next turn.
Words assembled from tiles are remembered better than words only read, and timed games such as Text Twist and Word Jumble reward that recall directly.