derogate needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 217 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derogate is the highest-scoring word from derogate, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 217 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in derogate — and it is derogate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in derogate 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 garoted and goateed, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derogate turns up 17 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agreed. For points, the strongest plays are agreed, dogear, dotage, dragee, geared, grated, and togaed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 46 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derogate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, agree, grade, great, greet, and trade. For points, the strongest plays are edger, gated, geode, godet, gored, grade, greed, ogeed, and raged — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in derogate produces 70 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, date, dear, deer, drag, and edge. For points, the strongest plays are aged, doge, drag, dreg, edge, egad, gaed, geed, goad, and grad — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derogate turns up 62 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, are, art, ate, dog, and dot. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dog, gad, ged, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 19 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derogate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, do, go, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, do, ed, go, 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 derogate 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.
derogate 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 derogate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
derogate is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derogate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is derogate, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from derogate 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 derogate produce 217 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 2 seven-letter words, 17 six-letter words, 46 five-letter words, 70 four-letter words, 62 three-letter words and 19 two-letter words.