Unscramble DEARNS and you have 131 words, DEARNS itself among them: it scores 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. DEARNS has 4 anagrams here, DENARS, REDANS, SANDER and SNARED, scoring 7 like DEARNS itself. It has 6 letters, 2 vowels and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Counting the words from DEARNS by length: 5 with 6 letters, 26 with 5, 48 with 4, 37 with 3 and 15 with 2.
Among 48 4-letter words you get when you unscramble DEARNS, the top score is 5, reached by 28. READ, SEND and NEAR are the familiar ones.
Trade one tile of DEARNS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 6-letter words: starting with DE · ending in NS · all 6-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with DENARS, REDANS, SANDER and SNARED (7 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
Scrabble UK accepts DEARNS, but the list Words With Friends is built on does not include it.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DEARNS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 131) | 98 | 131 | 88 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DEARNS, ARSED, DEARN, DERNS, EARDS, SARED, SNEAD, ARDS, ARED, DAES, DERN, EARD and 21 more, 33 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DENARS, DENAR, DANS, DAN, DAS, EDS, NAES, NARE, DA and SAN, 10 in all.
These 12 words take every letter of DEARNS plus a single extra one.