derringers 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, 306 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derringers is the highest-scoring word from derringers, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 306 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in derringers — and it is derringers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling derringers turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deringers and derringer, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derringers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designer. For points, the strongest plays are deringer, designer, energids, grinders, redesign, reedings, regrinds, and resigned — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in derringers produces 26 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genders. For points, the strongest plays are dingers, dreeing, energid, engirds, genders, girders, grinder, reeding, regrind, reigned, sedgier, and seeding — 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 derringers turns up 64 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, design, desire, diners, gender, grinds, and seeing. For points, the strongest plays are deigns, design, dinger, dinges, dirges, edgers, edgier, engird, gender, girder, girned, greeds, grides, grinds, reding, ridges, ringed, serged, sieged, signed, and singed — 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 72 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derringers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diner, dines, drier, dries, edges, and genes. For points, the strongest plays are deign, dinge, dings, dirge, dregs, edger, edges, girds, greed, gride, grids, grind, ridge, and sedge — 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 derringers produces 75 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, digs, dine, edge, ends, and gene. For points, the strongest plays are digs, ding, dreg, edge, geds, geed, gids, gied, gird, and grid — 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 derringers turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, gee, ids, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are dig, ged, and gid — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derringers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
derringers 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 one sense for derringers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
derringers is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derringers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is derringers, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from derringers 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 derringers produce 306 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 26 seven-letter words, 64 six-letter words, 72 five-letter words, 75 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.