defilement needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 232 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defilement is the highest-scoring word from defilement, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 232 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in defilement — and it is defilement itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defilement produces 10 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is liftmen, 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 defilement turns up 26 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with define, delete, filmed, lifted, melted, and needle. For points, the strongest play is filmed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 39 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defilement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with field, filed, and lined. For points, the strongest plays are delft, felid, feted, fetid, field, fiend, filed, fined, and flied — 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 defilement produces 86 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deli, diet, dime, dine, edit, feed, and feel. For points, the strongest plays are feme, film, and milf — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling defilement turns up 52 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, elf, end, fed, fee, fit, and led. For points, the strongest play is fem — worth 8 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 18 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defilement. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, in, it, and me. 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.
1 eleven-letter word can be made using all the letters in defilement plus one additional letter.
defilement 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 3-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 defilement. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
defilement is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defilement unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defilement, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defilement 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 defilement produce 232 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 10 seven-letter words, 26 six-letter words, 39 five-letter words, 86 four-letter words, 52 three-letter words and 18 two-letter words.