Hidden inside dervish sit dervish and shrived, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 116 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dervish and shrived tie for the highest Scrabble score from dervish at 14 points. The top 10 of 116 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in dervish: one comes from rearranging its letters, and dervish itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are dervish and shrived, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dervish turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drives. For points, the strongest play is shived — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 30 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dervish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dives, dries, drive, hides, hired, hires, and rides. For points, the strongest play is hived — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dervish produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dish, dive, hers, hide, hire, and ride. For points, the strongest plays are hive and shiv — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling dervish turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, her, hid, his, ids, red, and rid. For points, the strongest plays are dev, edh, hid, and vid — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dervish. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eh, he, hi, id, is, and sh. For points, the strongest plays are eh, he, hi, and sh — each 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 dervish and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
dervish 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 dervish carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for dervish. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
dervish is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dervish unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are dervish and shrived, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from dervish 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 dervish produce 116 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 30 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.