defamation needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 396 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defamation is the highest-scoring word from defamation, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 396 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in defamation — and it is defamation itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defamation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animated. For points, the strongest play is antifoam — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defamation produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with animate. For points, the strongest plays are defiant and fainted — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defamation turns up 50 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with donate and maiden. For points, the strongest plays are defoam, fandom, and foamed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 73 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defamation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with admit, aimed and demon. For points, the strongest play is famed — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defamation produces 127 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with amen, atom and damn. For points, the strongest plays are fame and foam — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defamation turns up 90 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, aim and and. For points, the strongest plays are fam and fem — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 38 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defamation. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, am and an. For points, 5 words tie at 5 points, including if, of and ef.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in defamation plus one additional letter.
defamation 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for defamation. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
defamation is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defamation unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defamation, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defamation 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 defamation produce 396 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 50 six-letter words, 73 five-letter words, 127 four-letter words, 90 three-letter words and 38 two-letter words.