Hidden inside eldere sit leered and reeled, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 27 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble DEREEL, EEERDL or EREDLE and you get the same 6 letters as ELDERE: so the words from ELDERE listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
ELDERE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to LEERED and REELED.
leered and reeled tie for the highest Scrabble score from eldere at 7 points. The top 10 of 27 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling eldere turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are leered and reeled, each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eldere. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are eeled and elder, each worth 6 points in Scrabble.
There are 5 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in eldere. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are de and ed, each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
6 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in eldere plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in eldere and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are leered and reeled, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from eldere 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 eldere produce 27 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 5 two-letter words.