Hidden inside defray sit defray and frayed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 13 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 68 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defray and frayed tie for the highest Scrabble score from defray at 13 points. The top 10 of 68 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 six-letter words hiding in defray: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defray itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defray and frayed, 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 8 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defray. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ready. For points, the strongest play is fayed — 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 defray produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deaf, dear, fear, read, yard, and year. For points, the strongest play is defy — 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 defray turns up 26 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye, day, dry, dye, ear, and era. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defray. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, the strongest plays are ay, ef, fa, fe, ya, and ye — 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 defray and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
defray 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 defray. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 13 points on a Scrabble board:
defray is one of two six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defray unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defray and frayed, worth 13 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defray 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 defray produce 68 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 six-letter words, 8 five-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 26 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.