Hidden inside defrost sit defrost and frosted, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 148 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defrost and frosted tie for the highest Scrabble score from defrost at 11 points. The top 10 of 148 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in defrost: one comes from rearranging its letters, and defrost itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defrost and frosted, each 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 defrost turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forest, softer, and sorted. For points, the strongest plays are fetors, forest, fortes, foster, and softer — 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 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defrost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with forts and store. For points, the strongest plays are feods and fords — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in defrost produces 51 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with does, dots, fort, rest, rode, rods, and rose. For points, the strongest plays are deft, feds, feod, and ford — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling defrost turns up 41 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dot, fed, for, red, rod, set, and toe. For points, the strongest plays are def and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defrost. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, of, or, so, and to. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and of — 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 defrost 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.
defrost 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.
Both totals match, because every tile in defrost carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for defrost. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
defrost is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defrost unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defrost and frosted, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from defrost 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 defrost produce 148 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 51 four-letter words, 41 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.