Hidden inside derats sit daters, derats, stared and 2 others, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 7 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 120 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
daters, derats, stared and 5 others tie for the highest Scrabble score from derats at 7 points. The top 10 of 120 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 5 six-letter words hiding in derats: four come from rearranging its letters, and derats itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stared and trades. For points, 5 words tie at 7 points, including stared, trades and daters.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, dates and dears. For points, 20 words tie at 6 points, including dares, dates and dears.
Rearranging the letters in derats produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare and date. For points, 13 words tie at 5 points, including dare, date and dear.
Unscrambling derats turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, 8 words tie at 4 points, including ads, red and sad.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in derats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ad, da, de, and ed — each worth 3 points in Scrabble.
46 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in derats plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in derats 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.
derats 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in derats carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
derats is one of five six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing derats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are daters, derats, stared, trades, and treads, worth 7 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from derats 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 derats produce 120 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 5 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.