Hidden inside defiers sit defiers and serifed, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 121 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defiers and serifed tie for the highest Scrabble score from defiers at 11 points. The top 10 of 121 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in defiers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defiers 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 defiers and serifed, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defiers turns up 8 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire. For points, the strongest plays are defers, defier, and defies — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, dries and feeds. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including feeds, fired and fried.
Rearranging the letters in defiers produces 41 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, dies and feed. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including feed, defi and difs.
Unscrambling defiers turns up 31 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, fed and fee. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defiers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and is. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
11 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in defiers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defiers 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.
defiers 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 defiers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
defiers is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defiers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defiers and serifed, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defiers 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 defiers produce 121 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 8 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 41 four-letter words, 31 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.