Hidden inside deferens is one standout: enserfed, a eight-letter play worth 12 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 113 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
enserfed is the highest-scoring word from deferens, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 113 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling deferens produces exactly one eight-letter word: enserfed. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deferens produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defense. For points, the strongest plays are defense, feeders, fenders, and refeeds — 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 deferens turns up 15 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defers, feeder, fender, reefed, and refeed, 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 24 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferens. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, feeds, needs, and nerds. For points, the strongest plays are defer, feeds, fends, 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 deferens produces 35 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, ends, feed, fees, free, need, and nerd. For points, the strongest plays are 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 deferens turns up 23 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, fed, fee, red, and see. 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 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferens. 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 deferens 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.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is enserfed, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deferens 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 deferens produce 113 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 24 five-letter words, 35 four-letter words, 23 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.