Hidden inside defrayed sit defrayed and feedyard, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 16 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 123 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defrayed and feedyard tie for the highest Scrabble score from defrayed at 16 points. The top 10 of 123 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in defrayed: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defrayed 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 defrayed and feedyard, each worth 16 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defrayed turns up 10 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer and feared. For points, the strongest plays are defray, frayed, and redefy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 27 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defrayed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dared and ready. For points, the strongest play is faddy — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defrayed produces 37 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, dead and deaf. For points, the strongest play is defy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defrayed turns up 33 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with add, are and aye. For points, the strongest plays are fay, fey, and fry — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
There are 14 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defrayed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and ay. For points, 6 words tie at 5 points, including ay, ef and fa.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in defrayed plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defrayed 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.
defrayed 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.
defrayed is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defrayed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defrayed and feedyard, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defrayed 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 defrayed produce 123 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 six-letter words, 27 five-letter words, 37 four-letter words, 33 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.