Hidden inside deffer sit deffer and reffed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 31 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deffer and reffed tie for the highest Scrabble score from deffer at 13 points. The top 10 of 31 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in deffer: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deffer itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deffer and reffed, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 4 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deffer. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is effed, 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 deffer produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with 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 deffer turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fed, fee, and red. For points, the strongest play is eff — worth 9 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 deffer. 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.
1 seven-letter word can be made using all the letters in deffer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deffer 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.
deffer is in the NWL, the official Scrabble word list for North America, but not in the Words With Friends dictionary, so it plays in Scrabble only.
deffer is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deffer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deffer and reffed, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deffer 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 deffer produce 31 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 4 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.