deferences needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 162 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deferences is the highest-scoring word from deferences, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 162 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in deferences — and it is deferences itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deferences produces exactly one nine-letter word: deference. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 15 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferences. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defences and refenced, each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deferences produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defense. For points, the strongest play is defence — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deferences turns up 30 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fences and screen. For points, the strongest play is fenced — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
There are 36 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferences. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, feces and feeds. For points, the strongest plays are feces and fence — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deferences produces 40 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, ends and feed. For points, the strongest plays are feds, feed, and fend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deferences turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, fed and fee. For points, the strongest plays are def and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferences. 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.
deferences 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 deferences. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
deferences is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deferences unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deferences, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deferences 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 deferences produce 162 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 6 eight-letter words, 13 seven-letter words, 30 six-letter words, 36 five-letter words, 40 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.