deferring needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 199 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deferring is the highest-scoring word from deferring, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 199 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in deferring — and it is deferring itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferring. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fingered, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deferring produces 21 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feeding. For points, the strongest plays are feeding, feigned, and fringed — 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 deferring turns up 29 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with define, finger, fridge, friend, and gender. For points, the strongest play is fridge — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 42 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diner, drier, finer, fired, freer, fried, and green. For points, the strongest play is fidge — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deferring produces 48 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dine, edge, feed, find, fine, and fire. For points, the strongest plays are defi, feed, fend, find, and frig — 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 deferring turns up 42 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, dig, end, fed, fee, gee, and red. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, fid, fig, and gif — 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 12 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deferring. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — 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 deferring 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.
deferring 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.
deferring is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deferring unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is deferring, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from deferring 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 deferring produce 199 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 4 eight-letter words, 21 seven-letter words, 29 six-letter words, 42 five-letter words, 48 four-letter words, 42 three-letter words and 12 two-letter words.