deferments 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, 323 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deferments is the highest-scoring word from deferments, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 323 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in deferments — and it is deferments itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deferments turns up 3 nine-letter words. 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 9 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with resented. For points, the strongest play 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 deferments produces 31 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defense, entered, and steered. 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 deferments turns up 62 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desert, enters, freest, meters, rented, resent, and rested. For points, the strongest plays are defers, 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 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferments. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, enter, feeds, meets, meter, needs, and nerds. 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 deferments produces 83 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, ends, feed, fees, feet, free, and meet. For points, the strongest plays are feme and fems — each 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 deferments turns up 41 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferments. 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.
deferments 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 deferments. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
deferments is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deferments unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deferments, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deferments 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 deferments produce 323 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 nine-letter words, 9 eight-letter words, 31 seven-letter words, 62 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 83 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.