Hidden inside defug is one standout: fudge, a five-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 15 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEFUG isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to FUDGE (verb), to falsify, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
fudge is the highest-scoring word from defug, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 15 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling defug produces exactly one five-letter word: fudge. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 4 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defug. 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 defug and you get a different five-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 4 of the 5 letters, not all of them.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is fudge, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defug 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 defug produce 15 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 five-letter word, 2 four-letter words, 8 three-letter words and 4 two-letter words.