defied needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 11 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 21 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defied is the highest-scoring word from defied, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 21 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in defied — and it is defied itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defied turns up 9 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die, fed, and fee. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
5 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in defied plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defied 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.
defied 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 defied carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
defied is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defied unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defied, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defied 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 defied produce 21 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 5 four-letter words, 9 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.