Hidden inside defern is one standout: fender, a six-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEFERN isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to FENDER (noun), a metal guard over the wheel of a motor vehicle, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
fender is the highest-scoring word from defern, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling defern produces exactly one six-letter word: fender. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defern. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defer, freed, and refed, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defern produces 16 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed and free. For points, the strongest plays are feed and fend — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defern turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with end, fed, fee, and red. For points, the strongest plays are def and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defern. 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.
4 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in defern plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defern and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fender, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defern 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 defern produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 five-letter words, 16 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.