Hidden inside derry sit derry, dryer, and redry, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 9 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 16 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
derry, dryer, and redry tie for the highest Scrabble score from derry at 9 points. The top 10 of 16 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 five-letter words hiding in derry: two come from rearranging its letters, and derry itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dryer. For points, the strongest plays are derry, dryer, and redry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling derry produces exactly one four-letter word: dyer. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling derry turns up 7 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dry, dye, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dey, dry, and dye — 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 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derry. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is ye, worth 5 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 derry 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.
derry 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
derry is one of three five-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derry unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are derry, dryer, and redry, worth 9 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derry 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 derry produce 16 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 five-letter words, 1 four-letter word, 7 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.