Hidden inside defrier sit ferried, refired, and refried, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 66 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEFRIER isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to FERRIED, REFIRED and REFRIED.
ferried, refired, and refried tie for the highest Scrabble score from defrier at 11 points. The top 10 of 66 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Rearranging the letters in defrier produces 3 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ferried, refired, and refried, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defrier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with drier, fired and freer. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including fired, fried and defer.
Rearranging the letters in defrier produces 17 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed and fire. For points, the strongest plays are defi and feed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defrier turns up 19 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, fed and fee. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defrier. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id and if. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
4 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in defrier plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defrier 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 plays from these letters are ferried, refired, and refried, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defrier 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 defrier produce 66 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 seven-letter words, 2 six-letter words, 17 five-letter words, 17 four-letter words, 19 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.