Hidden inside defilers sit defilers and fielders, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 249 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defilers and fielders tie for the highest Scrabble score from defilers at 12 points. The top 10 of 249 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in defilers: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defilers itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defilers and fielders, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in defilers produces 11 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with reliefs. For points, the strongest plays are defiers, defiler, defiles, fielder, refiled, and serifed — 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 defilers turns up 37 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with desire, fields, relied, relief, and relies. For points, the strongest plays are defers, defier, defies, defile, felids, fields, rifled, and selfed — 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 64 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defilers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers, delis, dries, feeds, feels, field, and filed. For points, the strongest plays are defer, defis, delfs, feeds, 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 defilers produces 78 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, deli, dies, else, feed, feel, and fees. For points, the strongest plays are defi, delf, difs, feds, feed, fids, 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 defilers turns up 44 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, elf, fed, fee, ids, led, and lid. 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 13 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defilers. 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.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in defilers plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defilers and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
defilers 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 defilers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
defilers is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defilers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defilers and fielders, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defilers 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 defilers produce 249 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 11 seven-letter words, 37 six-letter words, 64 five-letter words, 78 four-letter words, 44 three-letter words and 13 two-letter words.