defections needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 497 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defections is the highest-scoring word from defections, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 497 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in defections — and it is defections itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defections turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is defection, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with infected. For points, the strongest plays are confides and infected — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in defections produces 36 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defines, infects, noticed, notices, and section. For points, the strongest plays are confide and defects — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling defections turns up 72 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, costed, decent, define, denies, fences, and finest. For points, the strongest plays are coifed, defect, and fenced — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 124 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cents, codes, coins, cones, dices, diets, and dines. For points, the strongest plays are coifs, feces, fence, and fices — 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 defections produces 149 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cone, cons, cost, and dice. For points, the strongest plays are coft, coif, fice, fico, fisc, and foci — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling defections turns up 81 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die, dot, end, fed, fee, and fit. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, 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 26 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defections. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, if, in, is, it, and no. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
2 eleven-letter words can be made using all the letters in defections plus one additional letter.
defections 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 two senses for defections. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
defections is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defections unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defections, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defections 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 defections produce 497 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 6 eight-letter words, 36 seven-letter words, 72 six-letter words, 124 five-letter words, 149 four-letter words, 81 three-letter words and 26 two-letter words.