deserving needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 394 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deserving is the highest-scoring word from deserving, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 394 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in deserving — and it is deserving itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deserving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designer. For points, the strongest play is diverges — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deserving produces 35 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with genders and serving. For points, the strongest plays are diverge and grieved — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deserving turns up 87 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with denies, design, desire, diners, driven, drives, and gender. For points, the strongest plays are venged and verged — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 99 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deserving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diner, dines, dives, dries, drive, and edges. For points, the strongest plays are devis, diver, dives, drive, given, giver, gives, rived, veges, vegie, vends, venge, verge, vined, and vised — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deserving produces 98 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies, digs, dine, dive, edge, and ends. For points, the strongest plays are devi, devs, dive, give, vend, vide, vids, vied, and vigs — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deserving turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, eve, gee, ids, and red. For points, the strongest plays are dev, veg, vid, and vig — 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 deserving. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and is. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, gi, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in deserving plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deserving 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.
deserving 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.
The 3-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record one sense for deserving. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
deserving is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deserving unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deserving, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deserving 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 deserving produce 394 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 8 eight-letter words, 35 seven-letter words, 87 six-letter words, 99 five-letter words, 98 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.