deferent needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 88 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deferent is the highest-scoring word from deferent, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 88 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in deferent — and it is deferent itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deferent produces exactly one seven-letter word: entered. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deferent turns up 12 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with rented. For points, the strongest plays are defter, 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 12 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferent. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter. For points, the strongest plays are defer, feted, 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 deferent produces 31 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed, feet, free, need, nerd, and rent. For points, the strongest plays are deft, 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 deferent turns up 21 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, fed, fee, net, red, and ten. 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferent. 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 deferent 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.
deferent 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 one sense for deferent. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
deferent is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deferent unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deferent, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deferent 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 deferent produce 88 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 1 seven-letter word, 12 six-letter words, 12 five-letter words, 31 four-letter words, 21 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.