defensives needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 17 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 191 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defensives is the highest-scoring word from defensives, worth 17 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 191 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in defensives — and it is defensives itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 17 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defensives produces exactly one nine-letter word: defensive. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defensives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defenses. For points, the strongest plays are defenses, devisees, and finessed — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in defensives produces 9 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defense and defines. For points, the strongest plays are defense, defines, deveins, devisee, devises, endives, infeeds, and vendees — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling defensives turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with define, denies, and sensed. For points, the strongest plays are defies, define, devein, devise, endive, envied, evened, fessed, fiends, infeed, sieved, veined, vendee, and viseed — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defensives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dines, dives, feeds, finds, fives, needs, and seeds. For points, the strongest play is fives — 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 defensives produces 61 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, dine, dive, ends, even, 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 defensives turns up 36 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, end, eve, fed, fee, ids, and see. 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defensives. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, in, and is. 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.
defensives 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 defensives. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 17 points on a Scrabble board:
defensives is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defensives unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defensives, worth 17 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defensives 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 defensives produce 191 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 9 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 61 four-letter words, 36 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.