Hidden inside derun sit nuder and under, five-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 6 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DERUN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to NUDER and UNDER.
nuder and under tie for the highest Scrabble score from derun at 6 points. The top 10 of 31 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 derun. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: nuder and under, worth 6 points apiece in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in derun produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with nerd, nude, and rude. For points, 10 words tie at 5 points, including nerd, nude and rude.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derun. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
25 six-letter words can be made using all the letters in derun plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in derun 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 nuder and under, worth 6 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derun 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 derun produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.