draftees needs no unscrambling at all — the eight-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 12 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 305 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
draftees is the highest-scoring word from draftees, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 305 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in draftees — and it is draftees itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in draftees produces 12 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafest, dearest, and defeats. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including deafest, defeats and draftee.
Unscrambling draftees turns up 44 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deafer, defeat and desert. For points, 13 words tie at 10 points, including deafer, defeat and feared.
There are 86 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in draftees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, dares and dates. For points, 12 words tie at 9 points, including feeds, defat and defer.
Rearranging the letters in draftees produces 92 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare and date. For points, 8 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, feed and daft.
Unscrambling draftees turns up 53 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ads, are and art. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 17 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in draftees. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad, as, and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
7 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in draftees plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in draftees and you get a different eight-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 7 of the 8 letters, not all of them.
draftees 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 draftees carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for draftees. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
draftees is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing draftees unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is draftees, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from draftees 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 draftees produce 305 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 12 seven-letter words, 44 six-letter words, 86 five-letter words, 92 four-letter words, 53 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.