Hidden inside degerming sit degerming and demerging, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 14 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 181 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
degerming and demerging tie for the highest Scrabble score from degerming at 14 points. The top 10 of 181 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in degerming: one comes from rearranging its letters, and degerming 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 degerming and demerging, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in degerming. Here the everyday answer and the top-scoring play are one and the same: emerging, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in degerming produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with merging. For points, the strongest plays are deeming and merging — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling degerming turns up 28 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with gender, merged, remind, and rigged. For points, the strongest plays are degerm, grimed, and merged — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in degerming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, green, grind, and merge. For points, the strongest play is midge — 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 degerming produces 52 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dime, dine, edge, gene, germ, and mind. For points, the strongest play is migg — 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 degerming turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, egg, end, gee, gig, and men. For points, the strongest plays are dim, gem, med, meg, mid, and mig — each worth 6 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 degerming. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, in, and me. For points, the strongest plays are em, me, and mi — each worth 4 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in degerming 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.
degerming 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 4-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
degerming is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing degerming unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are degerming and demerging, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from degerming 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 degerming produce 181 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 3 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 28 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 52 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.