drifters 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, 178 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drifters is the highest-scoring word from drifters, worth 12 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 178 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one eight-letter word uses the letters in drifters — and it is drifters itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in drifters produces 3 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with stirred. For points, the strongest play is drifter — worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling drifters turns up 19 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with driest. For points, the strongest plays are drifts, fisted, rifted, and sifted — each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 44 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drifters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with diets, drier and dries. For points, 5 words tie at 9 points, including fired, fried and defis.
Rearranging the letters in drifters produces 56 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with dies, diet and dirt. For points, 5 words tie at 8 points, including defi, deft and difs.
Unscrambling drifters turns up 40 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with die, fed and fit. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 15 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in drifters. If a familiar word is all you need, start with id, if, is, and it. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, and if — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
Swap a single tile in drifters 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.
drifters 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 drifters carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for drifters. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
drifters is the only eight-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing drifters unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is drifters, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and no other word from drifters 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 drifters produce 178 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 eight-letter word, 3 seven-letter words, 19 six-letter words, 44 five-letter words, 56 four-letter words, 40 three-letter words and 15 two-letter words.