defeature 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, 167 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defeature is the highest-scoring word from defeature, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 167 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in defeature — and it is defeature itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defeature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with featured. For points, the strongest plays are defeater, featured, federate, and redefeat — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defeature produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feature. For points, the strongest plays are draftee and refuted — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defeature turns up 18 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, defeat, and feared. For points, 11 words tie at 10 points, including deafer, defeat and feared.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defeature. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, fraud, and trade. For points, 11 words tie at 9 points, including fraud, defat and defer.
Rearranging the letters in defeature produces 54 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date and deaf. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, feed and daft.
Unscrambling defeature turns up 43 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art and ate. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, fed, and fud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defeature. 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in defeature plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defeature 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.
defeature 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 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
defeature is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defeature unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defeature, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defeature 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 defeature produce 167 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 3 seven-letter words, 18 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 54 four-letter words, 43 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.