defeating needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 243 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defeating is the highest-scoring word from defeating, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 243 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in defeating — and it is defeating itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defeating produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feeding. For points, the strongest plays are feeding and feigned — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling defeating turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dating, defeat, define, eating, and gained. For points, the strongest plays are defang, fading, fanged, fidget, and gifted — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 33 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defeating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with agent, eaten, and giant. For points, the strongest plays are fadge and fidge — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in defeating produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aged, date, deaf, diet, dine, edge, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, defi, deft, fade, fang, feed, fend, find, and gift — 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 defeating turns up 68 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with age, aid, and, ant, ate, die, and dig. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fad, fag, fed, fid, fig, and gif — 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 24 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defeating. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, if, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in defeating plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defeating and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
defeating 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.
defeating is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defeating unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defeating, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defeating 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 defeating produce 243 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 33 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 68 three-letter words and 24 two-letter words.