Hidden inside derum sit demur and mured, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 8 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 26 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DERUM isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DEMUR and MURED.
demur and mured tie for the highest Scrabble score from derum at 8 points. The top 10 of 26 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derum. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are demur and mured, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling derum turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, mud, red, and rum. For points, the strongest plays are dum, med, and mud — each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derum. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me and um. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, mu, and um — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in derum 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.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are demur and mured, worth 8 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derum 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 derum produce 26 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 6 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.