defined needs no unscrambling at all — the seven-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 52 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble FEINDED, DEFIEND or DDIEEFN and you get the same 7 letters as DEFINED: so the words from DEFINED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
defined is the highest-scoring word from defined, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 52 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one seven-letter word uses the letters in defined — and it is defined itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defined turns up 7 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defend, define, denied, and indeed. For points, the strongest plays are defend, defied, and fended — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defined. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dined and ended. For points, the strongest plays are fiend and fined — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defined produces 14 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, died and dine. For points, the strongest plays are defi, feed, fend, and find — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defined turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with did, die and end. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 9 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defined. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, and in. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
2 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in defined plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defined 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.
defined 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.
The 1-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for defined. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
defined is the only seven-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defined unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defined, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defined 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 defined produce 52 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 seven-letter word, 7 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 14 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 9 two-letter words.