derogation needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 647 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derogation is the highest-scoring word from derogation, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 647 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in derogation — and it is derogation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derogation. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derating, dragonet, gradient, organdie, redating, rigadoon, rodeoing, and treading, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in derogation produces 48 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adoring, granted, ignored, reading, rooting, tearing, and trading. For points, the strongest plays are adoring, darting, deraign, doating, dragnet, dragoon, eroding, gadroon, garoted, godetia, goitred, gordita, gradine, grained, granted, groaned, groined, ignored, ingoted, reading, redoing, tangoed, trading, and triaged — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling derogation turns up 119 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with danger, daring, dating, donate, dragon, eating, and editor. For points, the strongest plays are danger, daring, dating, dinger, dogear, dotage, doting, dragon, drongo, engird, gained, gaited, gander, ganoid, garden, girned, girted, goodie, goonda, gradin, grated, nidget, noodge, ranged, reding, ringed, tanged, tinged, togaed, and tonged — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 141 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derogation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adore, agent, aired, anger, diner, doing, and donor. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, dingo, dirge, dogie, doing, donga, gated, geoid, godet, gonad, gored, grade, grand, gride, grind, raged, and ridge — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in derogation produces 179 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, dare, date, dear, diet, dine, and dirt. For points, the strongest plays are aged, dang, ding, doge, dong, drag, dreg, egad, gadi, gaed, gied, gird, goad, good, grad, and grid — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling derogation turns up 112 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, ago, aid, air, and, ant, and are. For points, the strongest plays are dag, dig, dog, gad, ged, gid, and god — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
There are 32 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derogation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, do, go, id, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ad, ag, da, de, do, ed, gi, go, id, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in derogation plus one additional letter.
derogation 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for derogation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
derogation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derogation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is derogation, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from derogation 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 derogation produce 647 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 15 eight-letter words, 48 seven-letter words, 119 six-letter words, 141 five-letter words, 179 four-letter words, 112 three-letter words and 32 two-letter words.