Hidden inside referred sit deferrer and referred, eight-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 12 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 38 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
deferrer and referred tie for the highest Scrabble score from referred at 12 points. The top 10 of 38 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 eight-letter words hiding in referred: one comes from rearranging its letters, and referred itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with referred. For points, the strongest plays are deferrer and referred — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Unscrambling referred turns up 4 six-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these six-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are feeder, reefed, and refeed, 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 7 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in referred. If a familiar word is all you need, start with freer and refer. For points, the strongest plays are defer, freed, and refed — 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 referred produces 9 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed, and free. For points, the strongest play is feed — 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 referred turns up 10 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fed, fee, and red. For points, the strongest plays are def 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 6 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in referred. No common everyday answer stands out among these two-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring words are ef 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.
2 nine-letter words can be made using all the letters in referred plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in referred 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.
referred 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 referred carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
referred is one of two eight-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing referred unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are deferrer and referred, worth 12 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from referred 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 referred produce 38 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 eight-letter words, 4 six-letter words, 7 five-letter words, 9 four-letter words, 10 three-letter words and 6 two-letter words.