deservings needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 490 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deservings is the highest-scoring word from deservings, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 490 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in deservings — and it is deservings itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deservings turns up 3 nine-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deserving and designers. For points, the strongest play is deserving — worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deservings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designer and dressing. 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 deservings produces 55 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with designs, desires, genders, serving, and singers. 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 deservings turns up 115 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 119 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deservings. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diner, dines, dives, dress, dries, and drive. 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 deservings produces 111 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 deservings turns up 56 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 deservings. 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.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in deservings plus one additional letter.
deservings 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 deservings. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
deservings is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deservings unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deservings, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deservings 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 deservings produce 490 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 18 eight-letter words, 55 seven-letter words, 115 six-letter words, 119 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 56 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.