Hidden inside dertoo is one standout: rooted, a six-letter play worth 7 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 49 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DERTOO isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to ROOTED (verb, form of root), to put forth an underground portion of a plant, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
rooted is the highest-scoring word from dertoo, worth 7 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 49 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling dertoo produces exactly one six-letter word: rooted. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 7 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dertoo produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with door, odor and rode. For points, 11 words tie at 5 points, including door, odor and rode.
Unscrambling dertoo turns up 18 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, red and rod. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including dot, red and rod.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dertoo. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and to. For points, the strongest plays are de, do, ed, and od — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
8 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in dertoo plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dertoo 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is rooted, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dertoo 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 dertoo produce 49 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 18 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.