deferred needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 43 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deferred is the highest-scoring word from deferred, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 43 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in deferred — and it is deferred itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deferred turns up 6 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with redder. For points, the strongest plays are feeder, 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 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferred. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freer and refer. For points, the strongest plays are defer, 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 deferred produces 11 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, deer, feed, and free. For points, the strongest play is feed — 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 deferred turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fed, fee, and red. 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferred. 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 deferred 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.
deferred 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in deferred carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
deferred is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deferred unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deferred, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deferred 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 deferred produce 43 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 6 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 11 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.