Hidden inside defttu is one standout: tufted, a six-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 23 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEFTTU isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to TUFTED (verb, form of tuft), to form into tufts (clusters of flexible outgrowths attached at the base), worth 10 points in Scrabble.
tufted is the highest-scoring word from defttu, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 23 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling defttu produces exactly one six-letter word: tufted. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defttu produces 4 valid four-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these four-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deft and feud, each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
There are 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defttu. 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.
Swap a single tile in defttu and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is tufted, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defttu 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 defttu produce 23 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 11 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.