defendants needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 253 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defendants is the highest-scoring word from defendants, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 253 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in defendants — and it is defendants itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defendants produces exactly one nine-letter word: defendant. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defendants produces exactly one eight-letter word: fastened. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defendants produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafest, defeats, and defends. For points, the strongest play is defends — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling defendants turns up 35 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defeat, defend, seated, tanned, teased, 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 55 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defendants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dated, dates, deeds, eased, eaten, ended, and fates. 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 defendants produces 77 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, ants, dads, date, dead, deaf, and deed. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, deft, fade, fads, feds, 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 defendants turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads, and, ant, ate, dad, and eat. 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 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defendants. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, as, 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.
defendants 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 defendants. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
defendants is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defendants unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defendants, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defendants 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 defendants produce 253 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 13 seven-letter words, 35 six-letter words, 55 five-letter words, 77 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.