defeated needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 53 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defeated is the highest-scoring word from defeated, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 53 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in defeated — and it is defeated itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defeated produces exactly one six-letter word: defeat. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defeated produces 15 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, dead and deaf. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, feed and daft.
Unscrambling defeated turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ate and dad. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defeated. 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.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in defeated plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defeated and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
defeated 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 defeated carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record three senses for defeated. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
defeated is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defeated unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defeated, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defeated 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 defeated produce 53 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 six-letter word, 5 five-letter words, 15 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.