Hidden inside redrafts sit drafters and redrafts, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 238 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
drafters and redrafts tie for the highest Scrabble score from redrafts at 12 points. The top 10 of 238 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in redrafts: one comes from rearranging its letters, and redrafts itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. No common everyday answer stands out among these eight-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are drafters and redrafts, each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in redrafts produces 10 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with retards and starred. For points, the strongest plays are drafter, redraft, and strafed — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling redrafts turns up 31 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arrest, faster and rarest. For points, 7 words tie at 10 points, including dafter, defats and drafts.
There are 58 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in redrafts. If a familiar word is all you need, start with after, dares and dates. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including defat, draft and fader.
Rearranging the letters in redrafts produces 72 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with arts, dare and date. For points, 7 words tie at 8 points, including deaf, daft and deft.
Unscrambling redrafts turns up 48 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 redrafts. 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.
1 nine-letter word can be made using all the letters in redrafts plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in redrafts 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.
redrafts 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 redrafts carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record one sense for redrafts. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 12 points on a Scrabble board:
redrafts is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing redrafts unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are drafters and redrafts, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from redrafts 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 redrafts produce 238 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 10 seven-letter words, 31 six-letter words, 58 five-letter words, 72 four-letter words, 48 three-letter words and 17 two-letter words.