Hidden inside refused sit defuser and refused, seven-letter plays tied at the top of this rack with 11 points in Scrabble apiece. In all, 98 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
Unscramble SURFEED, FUDERES or DREFUSE and you get the same 7 letters as REFUSED: so the words from REFUSED listed below are the words from those scrambles too.
defuser and refused tie for the highest Scrabble score from refused at 11 points. The top 10 of 98 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
There are 2 seven-letter words hiding in refused: one comes from rearranging its letters, and refused itself is already a playable word with no unscrambling required. If a familiar word is all you need, start with refused. For points, the strongest plays are defuser and refused — each worth 11 points in Scrabble.
There are 21 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in refused. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers and feeds. For points, 7 words tie at 9 points, including feeds, defer and feuds.
Rearranging the letters in refused produces 38 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed and fees. For points, the strongest plays are feds, feed, feud, and fuds — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling refused turns up 24 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, fed and fee. For points, the strongest plays are def, fed, and fud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
3 eight-letter words can be made using all the letters in refused plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in refused 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.
refused 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.
refused is one of two seven-letter words the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing refused unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring plays from these letters are defuser and refused, worth 11 points in Scrabble, and nothing else built from refused 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 refused produce 98 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 2 seven-letter words, 5 six-letter words, 21 five-letter words, 38 four-letter words, 24 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.