defrauders needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 282 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defrauders is the highest-scoring word from defrauders, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 282 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in defrauders — and it is defrauders itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defrauders produces exactly one nine-letter word: defrauder. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 14 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defrauders produces exactly one eight-letter word: defrauds. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defrauders produces 13 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with refused. For points, the strongest plays are defraud and defused — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defrauders turns up 47 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, dearer and erased. For points, the strongest plays are farded and feuded — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 80 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defrauders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared, dares and dears. For points, the strongest play is faded — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defrauders produces 80 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with adds, dads and dare. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, feed and fade.
Unscrambling defrauders turns up 45 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, ads and are. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, fed, and fud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defrauders. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and us. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
defrauders 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 defrauders. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
defrauders is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defrauders unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defrauders, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defrauders 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 defrauders produce 282 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 13 seven-letter words, 47 six-letter words, 80 five-letter words, 80 four-letter words, 45 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.