Hidden inside defiant sit defiant and fainted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 124 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defiant and fainted tie for the highest Scrabble score from defiant at 11 points. The top 10 of 124 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in defiant: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defiant itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defiant and fainted, 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 defiant turns up 3 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is fadein, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defiant. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defat, fated, fetid, fiend, and fined, 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 defiant produces 42 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deaf, diet, dine, edit, fate, and find. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, defi, deft, fade, fend, and find — 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 defiant turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, and, ant, ate, die, eat, and end. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fad, fed, and fid — 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 22 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defiant. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, an, at, id, if, in, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, 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.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in defiant plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defiant and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
defiant 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 one sense for defiant. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
defiant is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defiant unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defiant and fainted, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defiant 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 defiant produce 124 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 3 six-letter words, 14 five-letter words, 42 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 22 two-letter words.