Hidden inside derov sit drove and roved, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEROV isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DROVE and ROVED.
drove and roved tie for the highest Scrabble score from derov at 9 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derov. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drove. For points, the strongest plays are drove and roved — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derov. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and or. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in derov and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drove and roved, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derov 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 derov produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 7 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.