Hidden inside deafest sit deafest, defeats, and feasted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 119 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deafest, defeats, and feasted tie for the highest Scrabble score from deafest at 11 points. The top 10 of 119 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in deafest: two come from rearranging its letters, and deafest itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafest and defeats. For points, the strongest plays are deafest, defeats, and feasted — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deafest turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defeat, seated, and teased. For points, the strongest plays are defats, defeat, fasted, and feased — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deafest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates, eased and fates. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including feeds, defat and fades.
Rearranging the letters in deafest produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deaf and ease. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, feed and daft.
Unscrambling deafest turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate and eat. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deafest. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in deafest plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deafest and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
deafest 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 deafest carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
deafest is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deafest unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deafest, defeats, and feasted, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deafest 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 deafest produce 119 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 7 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.