defrayer needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 125 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defrayer is the highest-scoring word from defrayer, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 125 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in defrayer — and it is defrayer itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defrayer turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, dearer, and feared. For points, the strongest plays are defray, frayed, and redefy — each worth 13 points in Scrabble.
There are 31 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defrayer. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dryer, freer, ready, and refer. For points, the strongest play is fayed — worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defrayer produces 33 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, deaf and dear. For points, the strongest play is defy — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defrayer turns up 32 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, aye and day. 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 defrayer. 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 defrayer plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defrayer 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.
defrayer 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.
defrayer is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defrayer unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defrayer, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defrayer 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 defrayer produce 125 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 14 six-letter words, 31 five-letter words, 33 four-letter words, 32 three-letter words and 14 two-letter words.