Hidden inside verditers sit diverters and verditers, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 296 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
diverters and verditers tie for the highest Scrabble score from verditers at 13 points. The top 10 of 296 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in verditers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and verditers 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 diverters and verditers, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verditers. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are derivers, diverter, redrives, and verditer, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in verditers produces 38 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drivers, retired, retires, and stirred. For points, 10 words tie at 11 points, including drivers, deriver and derives.
Unscrambling verditers turns up 61 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, desire and driest. For points, 15 words tie at 10 points, including driver, drives and served.
There are 71 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verditers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, diets and dives. For points, 6 words tie at 9 points, including dives, drive and devis.
Rearranging the letters in verditers produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies and diet. For points, 6 words tie at 8 points, including dive, devi and devs.
Unscrambling verditers turns up 39 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve and ids. For points, the strongest plays are dev and vid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verditers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are de, ed, and id — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in verditers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in verditers 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.
verditers 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
verditers is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing verditers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are diverters and verditers, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from verditers 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 verditers produce 296 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 7 eight-letter words, 38 seven-letter words, 61 six-letter words, 71 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 39 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.