Hidden inside deriveg sit diverge and grieved, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 78 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DERIVEG isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DIVERGE and GRIEVED.
diverge and grieved tie for the highest Scrabble score from deriveg at 12 points. The top 10 of 78 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in deriveg produces 2 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 diverge and grieved, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deriveg turns up 6 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is verged, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deriveg. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drive. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including drive, diver and giver.
Rearranging the letters in deriveg produces 26 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dive and edge. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including dive, give and devi.
Unscrambling deriveg turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig and eve. For points, the strongest plays are dev, veg, vid, and vig — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in deriveg plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deriveg 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diverge and grieved, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deriveg 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 deriveg produce 78 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 26 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.