defendant 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, 102 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defendant is the highest-scoring word from defendant, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 102 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in defendant — and it is defendant itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defendant turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defeat, defend, tanned, and tended. For points, the strongest plays are defend and fended — 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 11 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defendant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dated, eaten, and ended. For points, the strongest play is faded — 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 defendant produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, dead, deaf, deed, fate, feed, and feet. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, deft, fade, feed, and fend — 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 defendant turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, and, ant, ate, dad, eat, and end. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defendant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in defendant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defendant 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.
defendant 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 one sense for defendant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
defendant is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defendant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defendant, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defendant 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 defendant produce 102 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 11 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.