Hidden inside defacer sit defacer and refaced, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 91 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defacer and refaced tie for the highest Scrabble score from defacer at 13 points. The top 10 of 91 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in defacer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defacer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defacer and refaced, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defacer turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer and feared. For points, the strongest plays are deface and farced — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 19 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defacer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cared, decaf, faced, and raced. For points, the strongest plays are decaf and faced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defacer produces 30 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cafe, card and care. For points, the strongest plays are cafe and face — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defacer turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, car and ear. For points, the strongest play is caf — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defacer. 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.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in defacer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defacer 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.
defacer 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
defacer is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defacer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defacer and refaced, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defacer 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 defacer produce 91 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 6 six-letter words, 19 five-letter words, 30 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.