defeatist needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 234 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defeatist is the highest-scoring word from defeatist, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 234 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in defeatist — and it is defeatist itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defeatist produces exactly one eight-letter word: safetied. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defeatist produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafest, defeats, and fatties. For points, the strongest plays are daftest, deafest, defeats, deftest, and feasted — 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 defeatist turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defeat, estate, fitted, seated, tasted, teased, and tested. For points, the strongest plays are defats, defeat, defies, fasted, fatted, feased, fetted, fisted, fitted, and sifted — 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 48 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defeatist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aside, dates, diets, eased, edits, fates, and feeds. For points, the strongest plays are defat, defis, fades, fated, feeds, feted, and fetid — 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 defeatist produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, date, deaf, dies, diet, ease, and east. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, defi, deft, difs, fade, fads, feds, feed, and fids — 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 defeatist turns up 54 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ate, die, eat, fat, and fed. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fad, fed, and fid — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defeatist. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, id, if, is, 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 defeatist plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defeatist 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.
defeatist 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 defeatist carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for defeatist. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
defeatist is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defeatist unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defeatist, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defeatist 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 defeatist produce 234 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 9 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 48 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 54 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.