verdure needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 33 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
verdure is the highest-scoring word from verdure, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 33 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in verdure — and it is verdure itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in verdure produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, ever, and rude. For points, the strongest plays are eruv, ever, and veer — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in verdure. 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.
5 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in verdure plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in verdure and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
verdure 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for verdure. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
verdure is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing verdure unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is verdure, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from verdure 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 verdure produce 33 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 12 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.