Hidden inside leafed sit deflea, deleaf, and leafed, six-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 10 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 47 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deflea, deleaf, and leafed tie for the highest Scrabble score from leafed at 10 points. The top 10 of 47 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 3 six-letter words hiding in leafed: two come from rearranging its letters, and leafed itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are deflea, deleaf, and leafed, each worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in leafed produces 18 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deaf, deal, feed, feel, fled, flee, and lead. For points, the strongest plays are deaf, delf, fade, feed, and fled — 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 leafed turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with elf, fed, fee, lad, and led. 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 11 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in leafed. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ad. 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 leafed 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.
leafed 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 one sense for leafed. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
leafed is one of three six-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing leafed unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deflea, deleaf, and leafed, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from leafed 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 leafed produce 47 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 3 six-letter words, 18 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 11 two-letter words.