Hidden inside developer sit developer and redevelop, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 159 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
developer and redevelop tie for the highest Scrabble score from developer at 15 points. The top 10 of 159 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in developer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and developer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are developer and redevelop, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling developer produces exactly one eight-letter word: develope. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in developer produces 4 valid seven-letter words. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: develop, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling developer turns up 20 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper, peeled, and proved. For points, the strongest plays are peeved and proved — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in developer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drove, loved and lover. For points, the strongest plays are peeve, pervo, and prove — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in developer produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deep, deer and dove. For points, the strongest plays are perv and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling developer turns up 35 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with eve, led and old. For points, the strongest play is dev — worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in developer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do and or. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in developer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in developer 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.
developer 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 two senses for developer. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
developer is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing developer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are developer and redevelop, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from developer 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 developer produce 159 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 1 eight-letter word, 4 seven-letter words, 20 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 35 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.