Hidden inside defretu is one standout: refuted, a seven-letter play worth 11 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 71 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEFRETU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to REFUTED (verb, form of refute), to prove to be false or erroneous, worth 11 points in Scrabble.
refuted is the highest-scoring word from defretu, worth 11 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 71 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling defretu produces exactly one seven-letter word: refuted. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defretu. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defer, feted, feued and 2 more, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defretu produces 27 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed and feet. For points, the strongest plays are deft, feed, and feud — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defretu turns up 22 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, fed and fee. For points, the strongest plays are def, fed, and fud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defretu. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef and fe, each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
1 eight-letter word can be made using all the letters in defretu plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defretu and you get a different seven-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 6 of the 7 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is refuted, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defretu 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 defretu produce 71 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 3 six-letter words, 9 five-letter words, 27 four-letter words, 22 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.