Hidden inside derrises sit derrises, desirers, dressier and 1 other, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derrises, desirers, dressier and 6 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from derrises at 9 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 4 eight-letter words hiding in derrises: three come from rearranging its letters, and derrises itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derrises, desirers, dressier, and residers, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in derrises produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desires and dresser. For points, the strongest plays are derries, desirer, desires, dresser, redress, redries, resider, resides, and serried — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling derrises turns up 16 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire and series. For points, the strongest plays are derris, desire, dieses, driers, eiders, reside, resids, riders, seders, and seised — 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 29 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derrises. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dress, drier, dries, rides, rises, and seeds. For points, the strongest plays are deers, desis, direr, drees, dress, drier, dries, eider, erred, redes, reeds, resid, rider, rides, seder, seeds, sered, sides, 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 derrises produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, ride, rids, rise, seed, and sees. For points, the strongest plays are deer, dees, dere, desi, dies, dire, diss, dree, eide, ides, ired, rede, reds, reed, ride, rids, seed, 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 derrises turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, ids, red, rid, see, and sir. For points, the strongest plays are dee, 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 derrises. 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 derrises 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.
derrises 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 derrises carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for derrises. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 9 points on a Scrabble board:
derrises is one of four eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derrises unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derrises, desirers, dressier, and residers, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derrises 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 derrises produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 4 eight-letter words, 12 seven-letter words, 16 six-letter words, 29 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.