Unscramble DERNING and you have 98 words, DERNING itself among them: it scores 9 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. It has 2 anagrams, each with the same 9 points: GRINNED and RENDING. The 7 letters split into 2 vowels and 5 consonants. Play all 7 tiles of DERNING at once for 59 in Scrabble (9 + 50) or 47 in Words With Friends (12 + 35).
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from DERNING by length: 3 with 7 letters, 13 with 6, 16 with 5, 25 with 4, 31 with 3 and 10 with 2.
Keep every letter of DERNING but one, change that one, and you get:
More 7-letter words: starting with DE · ending in NG · all 7-letter words
The 8 best-scoring answers and what they mean, led by GRINNED and RENDING (9 points each).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
DERNING is a Scrabble word (Scrabble UK), though the list Words With Friends is built on leaves it out.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DERNING itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 98) | 76 | 98 | 72 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DERNING, DERING, DERIG, ENRING, ERNING, ERING, GREIN, DEG, DERN, GINN, GREN, NIED and 10 more, 22 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: DENI, NINER, NEG and GI, 4 in all.
With one more tile, the letters of DERNING spell the words below.