Hidden inside defere sit feeder, reefed, and refeed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 30 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEFERE isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to FEEDER, REEFED and REFEED.
feeder, reefed, and refeed tie for the highest Scrabble score from defere at 10 points. The top 10 of 30 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling defere turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feeder, reefed, and refeed, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defere. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defer, freed, and refed, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defere produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed, and free. For points, the strongest play is feed — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defere. 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.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in defere plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defere and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are feeder, reefed, and refeed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defere 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 defere produce 30 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 3 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.