defectives needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 19 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 195 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defectives is the highest-scoring word from defectives, worth 19 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 195 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in defectives — and it is defectives itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 19 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defectives produces exactly one nine-letter word: defective. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 18 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defectives. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is deceives, 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 defectives produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with devices. For points, the strongest plays are deceive, defects, devices, evicted, and festive — 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 defectives turns up 22 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with device. For points, the strongest plays are defect and device — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defectives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dices, diets, dives, edits, feces, feeds, and fives. For points, the strongest plays are fives and viced — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in defectives produces 66 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dice, dies, diet, dive, edit, eves, and feed. For points, the strongest play is five — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling defectives turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, eve, fed, fee, fit, ice, and ids. For points, the strongest plays are def, dev, dif, fed, fid, and vid — 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defectives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, 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.
defectives 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 three senses for defectives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 19 points on a Scrabble board:
defectives is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defectives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defectives, worth 19 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defectives 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 defectives produce 195 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 22 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 66 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.