Hidden inside defats sit defats and fasted, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 87 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defats and fasted tie for the highest Scrabble score from defats at 10 points. The top 10 of 87 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in defats: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defats 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 defats and fasted, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defats. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dates and fates. For points, the strongest plays are defat, fades, and fated — 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 defats produces 28 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deaf, east, eats, fast, fate, and safe. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, deft, fade, fads, and feds — 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 defats turns up 29 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, ate, eat, fat, fed, sad, and sat. 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 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defats. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in defats 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.
defats 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 defats carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for defats. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
defats is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defats unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defats and fasted, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defats 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 defats produce 87 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 28 four-letter words, 29 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.