Unscramble DERNS and you have 34 words, DERNS itself among them: it scores 6 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. DERNS has 2 anagrams here, NERDS and RENDS, scoring 6 like DERNS itself. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Tile values: Scrabble, then Words With Friends in blue if different.
By length, the words from DERNS split into 3 with 5 letters, 11 with 4, 13 with 3 and 7 with 2.
Trade one tile of DERNS for another and you can spell these 6 words:
More 5-letter words: starting with DE · ending in NS · all 5-letter words
Here is what the 8 strongest answers mean; NERDS and RENDS (6 points each) share the top spot.
Points: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: DERNS is playable in Scrabble UK. It is not in the list Words With Friends is built on.
| Game | Scrabble US | Scrabble UK | Words With Friends* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DERNS itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 34) | 27 | 34 | 26 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
7 of the 34 answers are missing from Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DERNS, DERN, NEDS, NED, RENS, SED and REN. 1 of the 34 answers is missing from Words With Friends*: EDS.
Each word below uses all the letters of DERNS and one more.