defection needs no unscrambling at all — the nine-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 15 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 203 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defection is the highest-scoring word from defection, worth 15 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 203 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one nine-letter word uses the letters in defection — and it is defection itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 15 points in Scrabble.
Unscrambling defection produces exactly one eight-letter word: infected. It is an everyday word and an easy play, worth 14 points in Scrabble.
Rearranging the letters in defection produces 7 valid seven-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with noticed. For points, the strongest play is confide — worth 13 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling defection turns up 23 six-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with coined, decent, define, infect, and notice. For points, the strongest plays are coifed, defect, and fenced — each worth 12 points in Scrabble.
The words below are listed alphabetically. Scores count playable tiles only and leave out premium-square bonuses.
There are 28 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fence, niece, and often. For points, the strongest play is fence — worth 10 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
Rearranging the letters in defection produces 73 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with cent, code, coin, cone, dice, diet, and dine. For points, the strongest plays are coft, coif, fice, fico, and foci — each worth 9 points in Scrabble.
Below, the list runs in alphabetical order, with each score based on the playable tile set — premium squares not included.
Unscrambling defection turns up 49 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with con, die, dot, end, fed, fee, and fit. For points, the strongest plays are def, dif, fed, and fid — 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 21 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defection. If a familiar word is all you need, start with do, id, if, in, it, no, and of. For points, the strongest plays are ef, fe, if, and of — each worth 5 points in Scrabble.
The full list follows, sorted A to Z; every score reflects tile constraints and skips board bonuses.
4 ten-letter words can be made using all the letters in defection plus one additional letter.
Swap a single tile in defection and you get a different nine-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 8 of the 9 letters, not all of them.
defection 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 2-point gap between the two totals comes from the tile values themselves: Scrabble and Words With Friends price the same letters differently.
Dictionaries record two senses for defection. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 15 points on a Scrabble board:
defection is the only nine-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defection unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defection, worth 15 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defection 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 defection produce 203 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 nine-letter word, 1 eight-letter word, 7 seven-letter words, 23 six-letter words, 28 five-letter words, 73 four-letter words, 49 three-letter words and 21 two-letter words.