Hidden inside defender sit defender and fendered, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 60 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defender and fendered tie for the highest Scrabble score from defender at 13 points. The top 10 of 60 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in defender: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defender itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defender and fendered, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling defender turns up 11 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defend and needed. 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defender. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended. For points, the strongest plays are defer, freed, and refed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in defender produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, feed, free, need, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are 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 defender turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, fed, fee, and red. For points, the strongest plays are def 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 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defender. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef 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.
Swap a single tile in defender and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
defender 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.
Dictionaries record two senses for defender. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
defender is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defender unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defender and fendered, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defender 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 defender produce 60 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.