Hidden inside default sit default and faulted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 112 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
default and faulted tie for the highest Scrabble score from default at 11 points. The top 10 of 112 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in default: one comes from rearranging its letters, and default itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with faulted. For points, the strongest plays are default and faulted — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling default turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feudal and fluted, 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 default. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adult, dealt, fault, and flute. For points, the strongest plays are defat, delft, fated, fauld, and flued — 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 default produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deaf, deal, fate, felt, flat, and fled. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, deft, delf, fade, feud, and fled — 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 default turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ate, due, eat, elf, fat, fed, and flu. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, fed, and fud — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in default. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad 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 default 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.
default 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 five senses for default. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
default is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing default unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are default and faulted, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from default 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 default produce 112 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.