derived needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 54 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DVDEERI, DDIVERE or VERIDED and you get the same 7 letters as DERIVED: so the words from DERIVED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
derived is the highest-scoring word from derived, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 54 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in derived — and it is derived itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 10 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derived. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dived, dried, and drive. For points, the strongest play is dived — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in derived produces 20 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer and died. For points, the strongest plays are devi, dive, vide, and vied — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling derived turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and eve. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in derived plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in derived 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.
derived 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 one sense for derived. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
derived is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derived unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is derived, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from derived 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 derived produce 54 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 10 five-letter words, 20 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.