deferrals needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 296 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deferrals is the highest-scoring word from deferrals, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 296 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in deferrals — and it is deferrals itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 2 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferrals. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deferral and federals, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deferrals produces 14 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealers, federal, and leaders. For points, the strongest plays are defleas, deleafs, fardels, and federal — 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 deferrals turns up 51 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, dealer, dearer, erased, falser, feared, and leader. For points, the strongest plays are deafer, defers, deflea, deleaf, faders, fardel, feared, feased, flared, leafed, and selfed — 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 deferrals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dares, deals, dears, deers, eased, erase, and false. For points, the strongest plays are defer, delfs, fader, fades, fards, fared, feeds, 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 deferrals produces 84 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deaf, deal, dear, deer, ears, and ease. For points, the strongest plays are deaf, delf, fade, fads, fard, feds, feed, and fled — 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 deferrals turns up 48 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are, ear, elf, era, far, and fed. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, 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 16 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferrals. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and as. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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 deferrals 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.
deferrals 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 two senses for deferrals. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
deferrals is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deferrals unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deferrals, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deferrals 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 deferrals produce 296 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 2 eight-letter words, 14 seven-letter words, 51 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 84 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 16 two-letter words.