defers needs no unscrambling at all — the six-letter word is already the strongest play its own letters allow, banking 10 points in Scrabble as it stands. In all, 56 valid words come out of this rack, grouped by length below and checked for Words With Friends as well as Scrabble.
defers is the highest-scoring word from defers, worth 10 points in Scrabble. The top 10 of 56 words are shown here, with the full list organized by length below.
Only one six-letter word uses the letters in defers — and it is defers itself. No unscrambling is needed: the word is already playable as written, worth 10 points in Scrabble.
There are 13 five-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defers. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deers and feeds. For points, the strongest plays are defer, feeds, 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 defers produces 19 valid four-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with deer, feed, fees, free, and seed. For points, the strongest plays are feds and feed — each 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 defers turns up 16 three-letter words. If a familiar word is all you need, start with fed, fee, red, and see. 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 7 two-letter words that can be made by unscrambling the letters in defers. 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.
Swap a single tile in defers and you get a different six-letter rack with its own word list. None of these appear in the results above — they share 5 of the 6 letters, not all of them.
defers 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 defers carries the same value on a Scrabble board and on a Words With Friends board.
Dictionaries record two senses for defers. Scrabble and Words With Friends score tiles and not meanings, so every sense below is worth the same 10 points on a Scrabble board:
defers is the only six-letter word the same letters produce. No arrangement of the same tiles scores higher in Scrabble, so playing defers unchanged also takes the maximum points these letters offer.
The highest-scoring play from these letters is defers, worth 10 points in Scrabble, and no other word from defers 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 defers produce 56 valid words in the Scrabble and Words With Friends dictionaries. The word count by length is: 1 six-letter word, 13 five-letter words, 19 four-letter words, 16 three-letter words and 7 two-letter words.