undefended needs no unscrambling at all — the ten-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 16 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 62 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
undefended is the highest-scoring word from undefended, worth 16 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 62 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one ten-letter word uses the letters in undefended — and it is undefended itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 16 points in Scrabble.
There are 3 eight-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undefended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defended. For points, the strongest plays are defended and defunded — each worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in undefended produces 2 valid seven-letter words. No common everyday answer stands out among these seven-letter results, so let the score decide: the highest-scoring word is denuded, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling undefended turns up 14 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with defend and needed. For points, 5 words tie at 11 points, including defend, defund and fended.
There are 6 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undefended. If a familiar word is all you need, start with ended. For points, the strongest plays are feued and unfed — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in undefended produces 13 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deed, dude and feed. For points, the strongest plays are feed, fend, feud, and fund — each worth 8 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling undefended turns up 15 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with due, end and fed. For points, the strongest plays are def, fed, and fud — each worth 7 points in Scrabble.
There are 8 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in undefended. 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.
undefended 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 3-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 undefended. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 16 points on a Scrabble board:
undefended is the only ten-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing undefended unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is undefended, worth 16 points in Scrabble, and no other word from undefended 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 undefended produce 62 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 ten-letter word, 3 eight-letter words, 2 seven-letter words, 14 six-letter words, 6 five-letter words, 13 four-letter words, 15 three-letter words and 8 two-letter words.