defoliate needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 13 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 279 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defoliate is the highest-scoring word from defoliate, worth 13 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 279 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in defoliate — and it is defoliate itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defoliate produces exactly one eight-letter word: foliated. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defoliate produces 5 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with floated. For points, the strongest plays are deflate, feedlot, fileted, and floated — 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 defoliate turns up 32 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defeat, detail, failed, and lifted. For points, the strongest plays are afield, defeat, defile, deflea, deleaf, failed, felted, flited, foaled, foetid, foiled, leafed, lifted, loafed, and lofted — 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 37 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defoliate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dealt, field, filed, float, and ideal. For points, the strongest plays are defat, delft, fated, felid, feted, fetid, field, filed, 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 defoliate produces 111 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with date, deaf, deal, deli, dial, diet, and edit. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, defi, deft, delf, fade, fado, feed, feod, fido, fled, and fold — 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 defoliate turns up 64 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aid, ate, die, dot, eat, elf, and fat. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fad, 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 28 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defoliate. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, at, do, id, if, it, and of. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
3 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in defoliate plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defoliate and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
defoliate 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 defoliate. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
defoliate is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defoliate unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defoliate, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defoliate 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 defoliate produce 279 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 5 seven-letter words, 32 six-letter words, 37 five-letter words, 111 four-letter words, 64 three-letter words and 28 two-letter words.