defoliates needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 14 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 700 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defoliates is the highest-scoring word from defoliates, worth 14 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 700 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in defoliates — and it is defoliates itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defoliates turns up 2 nine-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these nine-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defoliate and sealifted, each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 13 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defoliates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with isolated. For points, the strongest plays are deflates, feedlots, foliated, and safetied — 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 defoliates produces 34 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafest, defeats, details, floated, and isolate. For points, the strongest plays are deafest, defeats, defiles, deflate, defleas, deleafs, feasted, feedlot, fileted, floated, foisted, and stifled — 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 defoliates turns up 102 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defeat, detail, failed, fields, floats, itself, and ladies. For points, the strongest plays are afield, defats, defeat, defies, defile, deflea, deleaf, delfts, failed, fasted, feased, felids, felted, fields, fisted, flited, foaled, foetid, foiled, leafed, lifted, loafed, lofted, selfed, and sifted — 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 183 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defoliates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aisle, aside, dates, deals, dealt, delis, and dials. For points, the strongest plays are defat, defis, delfs, delft, fades, fados, fated, feeds, felid, feods, feted, fetid, fidos, field, filed, flied, and folds — 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 defoliates produces 230 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with aids, also, date, deaf, deal, deli, and dial. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, defi, deft, delf, difs, fade, fado, fads, feds, feed, feod, fido, fids, 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 defoliates turns up 101 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, aid, ate, die, dot, eat, and elf. 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 34 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defoliates. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, at, do, id, if, and is. 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.
defoliates 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 defoliates. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 14 points on a Scrabble board:
defoliates is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defoliates unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defoliates, worth 14 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defoliates 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 defoliates produce 700 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 2 nine-letter words, 13 eight-letter words, 34 seven-letter words, 102 six-letter words, 183 five-letter words, 230 four-letter words, 101 three-letter words and 34 two-letter words.