Hidden inside deflower sit deflower, flowered, and reflowed, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 15 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deflower, flowered, and reflowed tie for the highest Scrabble score from deflower at 15 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 eight-letter words hiding in deflower: two come from rearranging its letters, and deflower 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 deflower, flowered, and reflowed, each worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deflower produces 2 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with lowered. For points, the strongest plays are lowered and roweled — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling deflower turns up 15 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with flowed and flower. For points, the strongest plays are flowed, fowled, and wolfed — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 18 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deflower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fewer, lower, older, and world. For points, the strongest play is fewer — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in deflower produces 53 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, drew and feed. For points, 5 words tie at 10 points, including flew, flow and wolf.
Unscrambling deflower turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fed and fee. For points, the strongest play is few — worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in deflower. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, ew and of. For points, 7 words tie at 5 points, including ew, of and ow.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in deflower plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in deflower 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.
deflower 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 two senses for deflower. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
deflower is one of three eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing deflower unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deflower, flowered, and reflowed, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from deflower 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 deflower produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 15 six-letter words, 18 five-letter words, 53 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.