Hidden inside redevelops sit developers and redevelops, ten-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 390 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
developers and redevelops tie for the highest Scrabble score from redevelops at 16 points. The top 10 of 390 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 ten-letter words hiding in redevelops: one comes from rearranging its letters, and redevelops itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these ten-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are developers and redevelops, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling redevelops turns up 6 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are developer, developes, presolved, and redevelop, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redevelops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with develops and resolved. For points, the strongest plays are develope and develops — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in redevelops produces 25 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deserve, develop, and resolve. For points, the strongest play is develop — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling redevelops turns up 69 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deeper, lovers and peeled. For points, the strongest plays are peeved and proved — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 109 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redevelops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, drops and drove. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including prove, peeve and pervo.
Rearranging the letters in redevelops produces 103 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lord, lose and love. For points, the strongest plays are perv and veep — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling redevelops turns up 54 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redevelops. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, or, and so. For points, the strongest plays are op, pe, and po — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
redevelops 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 three senses for redevelops. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
redevelops is one of two ten-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redevelops unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are developers and redevelops, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redevelops 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 redevelops produce 390 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 ten-letter words, 6 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 25 seven-letter words, 69 six-letter words, 109 five-letter words, 103 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.