Hidden inside derris sit derris, driers, and riders, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derris, driers, and riders tie for the highest Scrabble score from derris at 7 points. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in derris: two come from rearranging its letters, and derris itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derris, driers, and riders, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derris. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drier, dries, and rides. For points, the strongest plays are direr, drier, dries, resid, rider, rides, and sired — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in derris produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, ride, rids, rise, and side. For points, the strongest plays are desi, dies, dire, ides, ired, reds, ride, rids, and side — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derris turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, red, rid, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are die, dis, eds, ids, red, and rid — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derris. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, 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.
Swap a single tile in derris and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
derris 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in derris carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for derris. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 7 points on a Scrabble board:
derris is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derris unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derris, driers, and riders, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derris 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 derris produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.