Hidden inside defang sit defang and fanged, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defang and fanged tie for the highest Scrabble score from defang at 11 points. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in defang: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defang itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defang and fanged, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defang. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fadge, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defang produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged and deaf. For points, the strongest plays are deaf, fade, fang, and fend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defang turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, and and end. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, fag, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defang. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and an. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in defang plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defang 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.
defang 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 one sense for defang. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
defang is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defang unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defang and fanged, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defang 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 defang produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 2 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.