Hidden inside dereft is one standout: defter, a six-letter play worth 10 points in Scrabble — the ceiling for this rack. In all, 48 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
DEREFT isn’t a word itself: it unscrambles to DEFTER (adjective, form of deft), skillful, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
defter is the highest-scoring word from dereft, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 48 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Unscrambling dereft produces exactly one six-letter word: defter. It is not one of the common answers — a genuine unscrambler find — and it banks 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dereft. No common everyday answer stands out among these five-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are defer, feted, freed, and refed, each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in dereft produces 19 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 and feed — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling dereft turns up 14 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fed, fee, and red. For points, the strongest plays are def and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in dereft. 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.
3 seven-letter words can be made using all the letters in dereft plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in dereft 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 defter, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from dereft 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 dereft produce 48 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 6 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 14 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.