Hidden inside deflect sit clefted and deflect, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 57 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
clefted and deflect tie for the highest Scrabble score from deflect at 13 points. The top 10 of 57 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in deflect: one comes from rearranging its letters, and deflect 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 clefted and deflect, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling deflect turns up 2 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is defect, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 5 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deflect. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elect. For points, the strongest play is cleft — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in deflect produces 22 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with feed, feel, feet, felt, fled, flee, and left. For points, the strongest play is clef — 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 deflect turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fed, fee, led, and let. For points, the strongest plays are def and fed — 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deflect. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef and fe, 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 deflect 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.
deflect 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record five senses for deflect. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
deflect is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deflect unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are clefted and deflect, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deflect 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 deflect produce 57 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 5 five-letter words, 22 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.