Hidden inside deferment sit deferment and fermented, nine-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 137 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deferment and fermented tie for the highest Scrabble score from deferment at 15 points. The top 10 of 137 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 nine-letter words hiding in deferment: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deferment itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deferment and fermented, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferment. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is freedmen, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deferment produces 6 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with entered. For points, the strongest plays are ferment and freemen — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deferment turns up 23 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 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with enter and meter. For points, the strongest play is fremd — 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 deferment produces 44 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed, feet, free, meet, need, and nerd. For points, the strongest play is feme — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deferment turns up 27 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, fed, fee, men, met, net, and red. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 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 deferment. If a familiar word is all you need, start with me. For points, the strongest plays 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.
1 ten-letter word can be made using all the letters in deferment plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deferment and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
deferment 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 one sense for deferment. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
deferment is one of two nine-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deferment unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deferment and fermented, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deferment 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 deferment produce 137 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 nine-letter words, 2 eight-letter words, 6 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 44 four-letter words, 27 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.