Hidden inside defiler sit defiler, fielder, and refiled, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 111 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defiler, fielder, and refiled tie for the highest Scrabble score from defiler at 11 points. The top 10 of 111 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 seven-letter words hiding in defiler: two come from rearranging its letters, and defiler 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 defiler, fielder, and refiled, 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 defiler turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with relied and relief. For points, the strongest plays are defier, defile, and rifled — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 22 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defiler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with field, filed, fired, and fried. For points, the strongest plays are defer, felid, field, filed, fired, flied, freed, fried, and refed — 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 defiler produces 39 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, deli, feed, feel, file, fire, and fled. For points, the strongest plays are defi, delf, feed, and fled — 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 defiler turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, elf, fed, fee, led, lid, and lie. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, 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 10 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defiler. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and if. 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.
Swap a single tile in defiler 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.
defiler 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 defiler. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
defiler is one of three seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defiler unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defiler, fielder, and refiled, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defiler 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 defiler produce 111 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 22 five-letter words, 39 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 10 two-letter words.