Hidden inside drafter sit drafter and redraft, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 103 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drafter and redraft tie for the highest Scrabble score from drafter at 11 points. The top 10 of 103 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in drafter: one comes from rearranging its letters, and drafter itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drafter and redraft, each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drafter turns up 9 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retard. For points, the strongest plays are dafter, farted, and rafted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 20 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drafter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after and trade. For points, the strongest plays are defat, draft, fader, fared, and fated — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in drafter produces 29 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dare, date, deaf, dear, fate, fear, and rare. For points, the strongest plays are daft, deaf, deft, fade, and fard — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling drafter turns up 28 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, and far. For points, the strongest plays are def, fad, and fed — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drafter. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad and at. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fa, and fe — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Swap a single tile in drafter 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.
drafter 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 drafter carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for drafter. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 11 points on a Scrabble board:
drafter is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drafter unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drafter and redraft, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from drafter 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 drafter produce 103 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 9 six-letter words, 20 five-letter words, 29 four-letter words, 28 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.