Unscramble DERE to get 15 words. DERE itself is a real word: 5 points on a Scrabble board, 5 in Words With Friends. It has 5 anagrams, each with the same 5 points: DEER, DREE, ERED, REDE and REED. RED and DEE are the best of the shorter words, at 4 points. The 4 letters split into 2 vowels and 2 consonants.
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Counting the words from DERE by length: 6 with 4 letters, 4 with 3 and 5 with 2.
Keep every letter of DERE but one, change that one, and you get:
More 4-letter words: starting with DE · ending in RE · all 4-letter words
Add two letters to DERE:
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by DEER, DREE, REDE and REED (5 points each).
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
DERE works in Scrabble US and Scrabble UK, and it appears in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DERE itself | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answers accepted (of 15) | 13 | 15 | 13 |
* Based on the list Words With Friends started from; the live game may differ.
Scrabble US and Words With Friends* skip 2 of them: ERED and EE.
Each word below uses all the letters of DERE and one more.