Unscramble DERNY to get 34 words. DERNY itself is a real word: 9 points on a Scrabble board, 9 in Words With Friends. DERNY has 1 anagram here, NERDY, scoring 9 like DERNY itself. 7 shorter words score 8, among them DENY, DYER and DYNE. The 5 letters split into 1 vowel and 4 consonants.
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Scrabble value on each tile, blue for Words With Friends when different.
Words from DERNY by length: 2 with 5 letters, 11 with 4, 13 with 3 and 8 with 2.
Keep every letter of DERNY but one, change that one, and you get:
More 5-letter words: starting with DE · ending in NY · all 5-letter words
Short meanings for the 8 highest-scoring answers, starting with NERDY (9 points).
Score: Scrabble · Words With Friends
In Scrabble, yes: DERNY 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* |
|---|---|---|---|
| DERNY itself | No | Yes | No |
| Answers accepted (of 34) | 24 | 34 | 23 |
* The Words With Friends base list; the game adds and drops some words.
Not in Scrabble US and Words With Friends*: DERNY, DREY, NYED, YERD, RENY, NYE, DERN, NY, NED and REN, 10 in all. Not in Words With Friends*: YER.
These 10 words take every letter of DERNY plus a single extra one.