dervishes needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 245 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
dervishes is the highest-scoring word from dervishes, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 245 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in dervishes — and it is dervishes itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dervishes. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are shivered and shrieved, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in dervishes produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desires. For points, the strongest plays 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 dervishes turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire, dishes, drives, series, served, serves, and shreds. 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 65 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dervishes. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dives, dress, dries, drive, hides, and hired. 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 dervishes produces 68 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, dish, dive, ever, eves, and here. 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 dervishes turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve, her, hid, his, ids, and red. 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 dervishes. 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 dervishes and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
dervishes 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 dervishes carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for dervishes. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
dervishes is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing dervishes unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is dervishes, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dervishes 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 dervishes produce 245 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 65 five-letter words, 68 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.