Hidden inside deafer sit deafer and feared, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deafer and feared tie for the highest Scrabble score from deafer at 10 points. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in deafer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deafer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. Here the everyday answers and the top-scoring plays are one and the same: deafer and feared, worth 10 points apiece in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deafer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defer, fader, fared, freed, and refed, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deafer produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deaf, dear, deer, fear, feed, and free. For points, the strongest plays are deaf, fade, fard, and feed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deafer turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, ear, era, far, fed, fee, and red. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deafer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in deafer and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
deafer is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, and in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it's playable exactly as it stands and needs no unscrambling.
Both totals match, because every tile in deafer carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
deafer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deafer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deafer and feared, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deafer earns more points in Scrabble. Words With Friends prices the same letters differently, so the top of the list changes on a Words With Friends board. Both scores count tile values only and exclude premium squares.
The letters in deafer produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.