What DERIDES Means
DERIDES is a form of DERIDE, which means:
- verb: treat or speak of with contempt“He derided his student's attempt to solve the biggest problem in mathematics”
Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What It Scores
DERIDES is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 E1 R1 I1 D2 E1 S1.
At seven letters this plays a whole rack, which is a bingo and worth 59 in Scrabble once the 50 point bonus lands.
Anagrams of DERIDES (3)
Same letters, different order. Any of these plays the same tiles for the same score.
Words Made From The Letters In DERIDES
95 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.
6 letter words (7)
5 letter words (24)
4 letter words (32)
3 letter words (22)
2 letter words (10)
Next: the Word Unscrambler for any letters at all. Full entry and definition at Merriam-Webster.